{"id":319114,"date":"2026-03-08T12:04:14","date_gmt":"2026-03-08T12:04:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/319114\/"},"modified":"2026-03-08T12:04:14","modified_gmt":"2026-03-08T12:04:14","slug":"inflation-shoots-up-to-9-13-in-february-highest-in-10-months","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/319114\/","title":{"rendered":"Inflation shoots up to 9.13% in February, highest in 10 months"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>      Despite the monthly rise, the current figures remain slightly lower than those recorded in the same period last year.    <\/p>\n<p>\n                    TBS Report\n          <\/p>\n<p>\n      08 March, 2026, 03:30 pm    <\/p>\n<p>\n      Last modified: 08 March, 2026, 04:28 pm    <\/p>\n<p>\n      Illustration: TBS<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;&gt; <\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"adf-overlay ratio ratio__16x9 lazyload\" data-aspectratio=\"451\/254\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/inflation_1_0.png\" width=\"451\" height=\"254\" alt=\"Illustration: TBS\" title=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\n          Illustration: TBS        <\/p>\n<p class=\"rtejustify\">National general inflation in Bangladesh rose to 9.13% on a point-to-point basis in February 2026, up from 8.58% from last month, according to the latest data from the Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics (BBS).<\/p>\n<p class=\"rtejustify\">This is the highest in 10 months since\u00a0April 2025, when the inflation rate was 9.17%.<\/p>\n<p class=\"rtejustify\">The latest increase was largely driven by a significant spike in food inflation, which climbed to 9.3% in February from 8.29% in January this year.<\/p>\n<p>        <a style=\"font-weight: bold; color: #2b4949; border-bottom: 1px solid #ccc; font-size: 18px;\" href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/publications\/CAAqBwgKMIivlQsw2ZKrAw?ceid=US:en&amp;oc=3\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n          <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tbsnews.net\/sites\/all\/themes\/sloth\/images\/google_news.svg\" alt=\"The Business Standard Google News\" style=\"display: inline-block; margin-right: 15px; margin-bottom: 10px; height: 30px;\"\/><br \/>\n            Keep updated, follow The Business Standard&#8217;s Google news channel<br \/>\n          <\/a><\/p>\n<p>Infograph: TBS<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;&gt; <\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"lazyload\" data-aspectratio=\"1396\/670\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/1772971454_480_image.png\" width=\"1396\" height=\"670\" alt=\"Infograph: TBS\" title=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Infograph: TBS<\/p>\n<p class=\"rtejustify\">Non-food inflation also witnessed an upward trend, rising to 9.01% in February from 8.81% last month.<\/p>\n<p class=\"rtejustify\">Despite the monthly rise, the current figures remain slightly lower than those recorded in the same period last year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"rtejustify\">In February 2025, the general inflation rate stood at 9.32%, with food and non-food inflation at 9.24% and 9.38%, respectively.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Despite the monthly rise, the current figures remain slightly lower than those recorded in the same period last&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":319115,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[138,219,111,139,69],"class_list":["post-319114","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-business","tag-economy","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319114","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=319114"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319114\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/319115"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=319114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=319114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=319114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}