{"id":566782,"date":"2026-05-05T04:09:11","date_gmt":"2026-05-05T04:09:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/566782\/"},"modified":"2026-05-05T04:09:11","modified_gmt":"2026-05-05T04:09:11","slug":"venezuelas-inflation-rate-eases-to-10-6-in-april-cenbank-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/566782\/","title":{"rendered":"Venezuela&#8217;s inflation rate eases to 10.6% in April, cenbank says"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"yf-1fy9kyt\">May 4 (Reuters) &#8211; Venezuela&#8217;s inflation rate eased to 10.6% in April \u200cfrom 13.1% in March, the \u200ccountry&#8217;s central bank said on Monday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1fy9kyt\">The inflation \u200brate so far in 2026 has reached 90%, the bank said on its website, while according to Reuters \u200ccalculations based on \u2060central bank figures the annualized inflation rate is 611.86%.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1fy9kyt\">&#8220;Our \u2060economy is healthy; it&#8217;s doing well,&#8221; the bank&#8217;s acting president, Luis \u200bPerez, said \u200bin an interview \u200bon state TV, \u200cin which he predicted single-digit inflation for May.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1fy9kyt\">Perez added that the bank did not alter figures to make them more positive. &#8220;We don&#8217;t cook \u200cthe books,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>    <img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/49720c900882312c55d169ffc6add9ba.jpeg\" alt=\"Vendors sell inflatable toys at the beach in La Guaira, Venezuela, December 27, 2025. REUTERS\/Gaby Oraa\" loading=\"eager\" height=\"531\" width=\"800\" class=\"yf-lglytj  loaded\"\/> Vendors sell inflatable toys at the beach in La Guaira, Venezuela, December 27, 2025. REUTERS\/Gaby Oraa      <\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1fy9kyt\">Since \u200bthe resumption of relations \u200bwith \u200bthe International Monetary Fund last \u200cmonth, Venezuela has appointed \u200bcurrent Vice \u200bPresident for Economic Affairs Calixto Ortega as its representative or governor \u200bto \u200cthe organization, Perez added.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1fy9kyt\">(Reporting by Reuters \u200bstaff; Editing by Tom Hogue \u200band Christian Schmollinger)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"May 4 (Reuters) &#8211; Venezuela&#8217;s inflation rate eased to 10.6% in April \u200cfrom 13.1% in March, the \u200ccountry&#8217;s&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":566783,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[84,6267,1294,14173,56,54,55,586],"class_list":["post-566782","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-business","tag-central-bank","tag-economy","tag-inflation-rate","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom","tag-venezuela"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/566782","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=566782"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/566782\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/566783"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=566782"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=566782"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=566782"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}