{"id":271287,"date":"2025-11-19T08:21:07","date_gmt":"2025-11-19T08:21:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/271287\/"},"modified":"2025-11-19T08:21:07","modified_gmt":"2025-11-19T08:21:07","slug":"uk-inflation-rate-falls-for-first-time-since-march-to-3-6-live-updates-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/271287\/","title":{"rendered":"UK inflation rate falls for first time since March to 3.6% &#8211; live updates"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What is inflation?published at 06:19 GMT<\/p>\n<p>06:19 GMT<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Inflation measures how quickly the prices of goods and services are rising. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">If the inflation rate is low, then prices are only rising slowly. If the rate is high, you might notice the price of things you buy going up when you shop.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">If the rate of inflation falls, that doesn\u2019t mean prices are falling; it means that prices are increasing at a slower rate.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Here\u2019s an example: if a bottle of milk cost \u00a31 in September 2024, but costs \u00a31.05 in September 2025, then the annual inflation rate for milk is 5%.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">If the rate was 2%, then the bottle of milk would cost \u00a31.02 &#8211; still more than a year ago.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Office for National Statistics tracks the prices of hundreds of items, from regular supermarket goods and fuel to travel costs and home furnishings. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It uses that \u201cbasket of goods\u201d to update the main rate of inflation, the Consumer Prices Index, each month.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"What is inflation?published at 06:19 GMT 06:19 GMT Inflation measures how quickly the prices of goods and services&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":271239,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[84,1294,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-271287","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-economy","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-economy","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271287","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=271287"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271287\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/271239"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=271287"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=271287"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=271287"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}