{"id":139374,"date":"2025-10-29T23:00:44","date_gmt":"2025-10-29T23:00:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=139374"},"modified":"2025-10-29T23:00:44","modified_gmt":"2025-10-29T23:00:44","slug":"hong-kong-follows-us-in-quarter-point-rate-cut-to-lower-lending-cost","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=139374","title":{"rendered":"Hong Kong follows US in quarter-point rate cut to lower lending cost"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostHong Kong\u2019s de facto central bank cut the base interest rate for the second time in six weeks, further reducing the cost of funding to help reboot the city\u2019s businesses and reduce the burden on mortgage borrowers.<br \/>\nThe Hong Kong Monetary Authority (HKMA) cut the base rate by a quarter point to 4.25 per cent on Thursday, hours after the US Federal Reserve pared its target rate by the same margin to a range of 3.75 per cent to 4 per cent during the seventh meeting of the Federal Open Market&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/business\/banking-finance\/article\/3330832\/hong-kong-follows-us-quarter-point-interest-rate-cut-reduce-loans-cost-borrowers?utm_source=rss_feed\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostHong Kong\u2019s de facto central bank cut the base interest rate for the second time in six weeks, further reducing the cost of funding&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139374"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=139374"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139374\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=139374"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=139374"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=139374"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}