中东冲突推动汽油价格升至创纪录水平，导致肯尼亚10月通胀率升至三年多来的最高水平，引发加息预期。
Kenya’s inflation rate climbed to the highest level in more than three years in October as the Middle East conflict drove gasoline prices to a record, raising the prospect of an interest-rate hike.
内罗毕的肯尼亚国家统计局周五在一份电子邮件声明中表示，消费者价格较去年同期上涨7.3%，而9月为6.8%。彭博社对四位经济学家的调查中位数预估为7%，而央行预测为6.9%。
Consumer prices rose 7.3% from a year earlier, compared with 6.8% in September, the Nairobi-based Kenya National Bureau of Statistics said Friday in an emailed statement. The median estimate of four economists in a Bloomberg survey was 7%, while the central bank’s forecast was 6.9%.
反映潜在价格压力的核心通胀本月加速至4.3%，而9月为4%。
Core inflation, a measure of underlying price pressures, accelerated to 4.3% this month, compared with 4% in September.
通胀加快，加上与乌克兰和伊朗战争相关的燃料、粮食和肥料供应中断带来的价格压力，可能促使央行在12月加息，这是自2024年以来的首次。
The quickening in inflation, coupled with price pressures from fuel, grain and fertilizer supply disruptions linked to the wars in Ukraine and Iran, could prompt the central bank to raise interest rates in December for the first time since 2024.
行长卡马乌·塔格警告称，如果油价超过每桶110美元，通胀可能突破央行目标区间7.5%的上限，油价上周已触及该水平。这个东非国家自2月以来一直将基准利率维持在8.75%。
Governor Kamau Thugge has warned that inflation could breach the 7.5% ceiling of the central bank’s target range if oil prices exceed $110 a barrel, a level they surpassed last week. The East African nation has kept its key rate at 8.75% since February.