{"id":139955,"date":"2018-06-12T09:01:38","date_gmt":"2018-06-12T09:01:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/english\/wage-growth-slows-despite-unemployment-fall\/"},"modified":"2018-06-12T09:01:38","modified_gmt":"2018-06-12T09:01:38","slug":"wage-growth-slows-despite-unemployment-fall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/english\/wage-growth-slows-despite-unemployment-fall\/","title":{"rendered":"Wage growth slows despite unemployment fall"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure>                                  <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Breaking News image\" src=\"https:\/\/ichef.bbci.co.uk\/news\/320\/cpsprodpb\/7A23\/production\/_97176213_breaking_news_bigger.png\"\/>                      <\/figure>\n<p class=\"caps\">Wage growth unexpectedly slipped to 2.8% from 2.9% in the three months to April, despite unemployment falling by 38,000 to 1.42 million, official figures show.<\/p>\n<p>Economists had expected wage growth to remain steady at 2.9%.<\/p>\n<p>The slowdown is likely to dampen expectations of an interest rate rise in August. <\/p>\n<p>Wage growth is one of the key figures the Bank of England monitors to assess the health of the UK economy.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;Employment has continued to rise, while the unemployment rate remained at its lowest for over 40 years. <\/p>\n<p>&quot;Wages, both including and excluding bonuses, are continuing to increase, and slightly faster than inflation,&quot; the ONS&#039;s statistician, David Freeman, said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wage growth unexpectedly slipped to 2.8% from 2.9% in the three months to April, despite unemployment falling by 38,000 to 1.42 million, official figures show. Economists had expected wage growth<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":139956,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-139955","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139955","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=139955"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139955\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/139956"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=139955"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=139955"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=139955"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}