{"id":18356,"date":"2023-04-20T21:02:15","date_gmt":"2023-04-20T21:02:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/south-korea-march-producer\/"},"modified":"2023-04-20T21:05:14","modified_gmt":"2023-04-20T21:05:14","slug":"south-korea-march-producer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/south-korea-march-producer\/","title":{"rendered":"South Korea March producer inflation eases to weakest in 25 months"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SEOUL (Reuters) &#8211;     South Korea&#8217;s producer inflation slowed in March to the weakest level in 25 months, central bank data showed on Friday, led by agricultural and petroleum products.<\/p>\n<p>The producer price index stood 3.3% higher in March than a year before, compared with 4.8% in February, according to the Bank of Korea. It was the slowest annual rise since February 2021.<\/p>\n<p>The index rose 0.1% on a monthly basis, marking the third straight monthly rise, but that was slower than gains of 0.2% and 0.4% in February and January. <\/p>\n<p>Prices of agricultural products fell 4.6% from the previous month, while coal and petroleum products were down 1.3%, contributing to the slowdown in inflation.<\/p>\n<p \/>\n<p> (Reporting by Jihoon Lee; Editing by Kim Coghill)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/south-korea-march-producer\/women-wearing-masks-walk-in-a-shopping-district-amid-the\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-content\/uploads\/Reuters_Direct_Media\/USOnlineReportEconomy\/tagreuters.com2023binary_LYNXMPEJ3J0YM-VIEWIMAGE.jpg\" alt=\"tagreuters.com2023binary_LYNXMPEJ3J0YM-VIEWIMAGE\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SEOUL (Reuters) &#8211; South Korea&#8217;s producer inflation slowed in March to the weakest level in 25 months, central bank data showed on Friday, led by agricultural and petroleum products. The producer price index stood 3.3% higher in March than a year before, compared with 4.8% in February, according to the Bank of Korea. It was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":18357,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1216],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18356","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-u-s-economy"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-content\/uploads\/Reuters_Direct_Media\/USOnlineReportEconomy\/tagreuters.com2023binary_LYNXMPEJ3J0YM-VIEWIMAGE.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18356","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18356"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18356\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18358,"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18356\/revisions\/18358"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18357"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18356"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18356"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18356"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}