{"id":641,"date":"2026-10-07T19:50:57","date_gmt":"2026-10-07T19:50:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tangazadital.co.ke\/?p=641"},"modified":"2026-10-07T19:50:57","modified_gmt":"2026-10-07T19:50:57","slug":"central-bank-of-kenya-keeps-interest-rate-at-8-75","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tangazadital.co.ke\/?p=641","title":{"rendered":"Central Bank of Kenya keeps interest rate at 8.75%"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Central Bank of Kenya has retained the Central Bank Rate at 8.75 percent. The decision is part of the bank&#8217;s efforts to maintain economic and price stability.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The latest CBK information shows that Kenya&#8217;s inflation rate stood at 6.8 percent in September 2026. The average lending rate was 14.34 percent in August.<br>Central Bank of Kenya<br>Keeping the rate unchanged provides some stability for banks, businesses and borrowers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The decision will be closely watched because interest rates affect the cost of loans for households and businesses.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Central Bank of Kenya has retained the Central Bank Rate at 8.75 percent. The decision is part of the bank&#8217;s efforts to maintain economic and price stability. The latest CBK information shows that Kenya&#8217;s inflation rate stood at 6.8 percent in September 2026. The average lending rate was 14.34 percent in August.Central Bank of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":642,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-641","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tangazadital.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/641","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tangazadital.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tangazadital.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tangazadital.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tangazadital.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=641"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tangazadital.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/641\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":643,"href":"https:\/\/tangazadital.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/641\/revisions\/643"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tangazadital.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/642"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tangazadital.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=641"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tangazadital.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=641"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tangazadital.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=641"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}