{"id":23489,"date":"2023-04-25T21:15:46","date_gmt":"2023-04-25T21:15:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/south-korean-consumers-inflation\/"},"modified":"2023-04-25T21:16:11","modified_gmt":"2023-04-25T21:16:11","slug":"south-korean-consumers-inflation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/south-korean-consumers-inflation\/","title":{"rendered":"South Korean consumers&#8217; inflation expectations fall to 11-month low"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SEOUL (Reuters) &#8211;     South Korean consumers&#8217; inflation expectations fell in April to the lowest in nearly a year, a central bank survey showed on Wednesday, while overall consumer sentiment hit a 10-month high.<\/p>\n<p>The median of consumers&#8217; inflation expectations for the next 12 months fell to 3.7% in April from 3.9% in March, according to the Bank of Korea&#8217;s monthly survey of consumers. It was the lowest reading since May 2022. <\/p>\n<p>The consumer sentiment index, meanwhile, rose to 95.1 from 92.0 in the previous month, hitting the highest since June 2022. <\/p>\n<p>Among its sub-indexes, the ones on current living conditions and future living conditions, which usually show high correlation with inflation, jumped by 1.1 points and 0.8 point, respectively, leading the headline figure higher. <\/p>\n<p \/>\n<p> (Reporting by Jihoon Lee, Editing by Louise Heavens)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/south-korean-consumers-inflation\/a-customer-picks-up-a-lunch-box-at-a-convenience-2\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-content\/uploads\/Reuters_Direct_Media\/USOnlineReportEconomy\/tagreuters.com2023binary_LYNXMPEJ3O0X2-VIEWIMAGE.jpg\" alt=\"tagreuters.com2023binary_LYNXMPEJ3O0X2-VIEWIMAGE\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SEOUL (Reuters) &#8211; South Korean consumers&#8217; inflation expectations fell in April to the lowest in nearly a year, a central bank survey showed on Wednesday, while overall consumer sentiment hit a 10-month high. The median of consumers&#8217; inflation expectations for the next 12 months fell to 3.7% in April from 3.9% in March, according to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":23499,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1213],"tags":[1223],"class_list":["post-23489","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-u-s-business","tag-updated"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-content\/uploads\/Reuters_Direct_Media\/USOnlineReportEconomy\/tagreuters.com2023binary_LYNXMPEJ3O0X2-VIEWIMAGE.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23489","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=23489"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23489\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23500,"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23489\/revisions\/23500"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23499"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23489"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23489"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23489"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}