{"id":313587,"date":"2022-06-17T17:00:21","date_gmt":"2022-06-17T20:00:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/inflacao-desacelera-na-arabia-saudita\/"},"modified":"2022-06-22T12:10:07","modified_gmt":"2022-06-22T15:10:07","slug":"inflation-slows-in-saudi-arabia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/inflation-slows-in-saudi-arabia\/","title":{"rendered":"Inflation slows in Saudi Arabia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>S\u00e3o Paulo \u2013 Escalating in several countries, <strong>inflation<\/strong> has slowed down in May in <strong>Saudi Arabia<\/strong>, an Arab nation in the Gulf. The annualized price increase reached 2.3% in April and diminished to 2.2% in May. Information was released on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.arabnews.com\/node\/2103756\/business-economy\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Arab News<\/a> website based on the General Authority for Statistics (GASTAT) data.<\/p>\n<p>The sectors that most contributed to inflation in the period were housing, water, electricity, gas, and other fuels, which advanced from 0.2% in April to 0.5% in May. <strong>Transport<\/strong> slowed down, from 4.6% in April to 4.1% in May. In <strong>hotels and restaurants<\/strong>, prices rose 3.2% in April against 4.1% in May. Deflation was recorded in <strong>clothing and footwear<\/strong>; -0.7% in April and -1.7% in May.<\/p>\n<p>According to Arab News, Saudi Arabia is energy-rich and subsidizes its energy products to redistribute government income directly. The Saudi government introduced a price cap on fuel prices to contain inflation. The amounts paid for fuel by <strong>electricity<\/strong> producers are also lower to proportionate a reduction in electricity rates to consumers.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Translated by El\u00fasio Brasileiro<\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"credits-overlay\" data-target=\".wp-image-313580\">\u00a9Fayez Nureldine\/AFP<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Arab country recorded a lower price increase in May compared to April. Transport prices have decreased. There was also deflation in clothing and footwear.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2316,"featured_media":313580,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[91],"tags":[11910,32554,32555,31606,32556,9757,32557,9595,32558,26648,32561,32560,32559],"class_list":{"0":"post-313587","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-economy","8":"tag-arabia-saudita-en","9":"tag-deflacao-arabia-saudita-en","10":"tag-gasolina-subsidiada-en","11":"tag-inflacao-en","12":"tag-inflacao-arabia-saudita-en","13":"tag-inflation-en","14":"tag-precos-arabia-saudita-en","15":"tag-saudi-arabia-en","16":"tag-saudi-arabia-deflation","17":"tag-saudi-arabia-inflation","18":"tag-saudi-arabia-prices","19":"tag-subsidized-fuels","20":"tag-subsidized-gas"},"wps_subtitle":"The Arab country recorded a lower price increase in May compared to April. Transport prices have decreased. There was also deflation in clothing and footwear.","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313587","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2316"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=313587"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313587\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/313580"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=313587"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=313587"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=313587"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}