{"id":178609,"date":"2024-11-20T07:05:09","date_gmt":"2024-11-20T07:05:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2024\/11\/20\/inflation-rises-to-2-3-in-october-after-energy-bills-rise\/"},"modified":"2024-11-20T07:05:10","modified_gmt":"2024-11-20T07:05:10","slug":"inflation-rises-to-2-3-in-october-after-energy-bills-rise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2024\/11\/20\/inflation-rises-to-2-3-in-october-after-energy-bills-rise\/","title":{"rendered":"Inflation rises to 2.3% in October after energy bills rise"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align:center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/ichef.bbci.co.uk\/news\/1024\/branded_news\/3eb9\/live\/d197f300-a69c-11ef-a92d-7f06a1355ad8.jpg?resize=1024,576&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"Inflation rises to 2.3% in October after energy bills rise\" title=\"Inflation rises to 2.3% in October after energy bills rise\" \/><\/div><p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-component=\"text-block\">\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fYAfXe\">UK inflation jumped last month in part due to rising energy prices, official figures show.<!-- --><\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fYAfXe\">The inflation rate, which measures price changes over time, hit 2.3% in the year to October, an increase from 1.7% in September.<!-- --><\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fYAfXe\">Annual gas and electricity bills rose by about \u00a3149 last month, but prices are rising much more slowly than in recent years.<!-- --><\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fYAfXe\">However, the rate, which is closely monitored to determine interest rates, is now back above the Bank of England&#8217;s 2% target.<!-- --><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/articles\/c8rl4rgdj12o\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UK inflation jumped last month in part due to rising energy prices, official figures show. The inflation rate, which measures price changes over time, hit 2.3% in the year to October, an increase from 1.7% in September. Annual gas and electricity bills rose by about \u00a3149 last month, but prices are rising much more slowly [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":178610,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/ichef.bbci.co.uk\/news\/1024\/branded_news\/3eb9\/live\/d197f300-a69c-11ef-a92d-7f06a1355ad8.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[604],"tags":[14757,2988,2955,7643,572,8241],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178609"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=178609"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178609\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":178611,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178609\/revisions\/178611"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/178610"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=178609"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=178609"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=178609"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}