{"id":548688,"date":"2026-04-24T18:07:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-24T18:07:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/548688\/"},"modified":"2026-04-24T18:07:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-24T18:07:09","slug":"jerseys-inflation-rate-is-2-7-a-decrease-on-the-last-quarter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/548688\/","title":{"rendered":"Jersey&#8217;s inflation rate is 2.7%, a decrease on the last quarter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Jersey&#8217;s retail price index (RPI), which is a key measure of inflation on the island, increased by 2.7% in the last year, new figures show. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The increase over the 12 months to March 2026 is slightly down on the previous quarter&#8217;s figure of 2.8%, with the annual rate of inflation down 0.1 percentage points.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Statistics Jersey said there were &#8220;sharp increases&#8221; in some energy prices. The price of heating oil and other fuels rose by 31.9% over the year due to the impact of the war in the Middle East, which has not been fully recorded in the most recent data.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Alcohol, food and household services contributed to the increase, it said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jersey&#8217;s retail price index (RPI), which is a key measure of inflation on the island, increased by 2.7%&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":548689,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[84,1294,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-548688","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-business","tag-economy","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/548688","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=548688"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/548688\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/548689"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=548688"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=548688"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=548688"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}