How to display the current interest rate, inflation rate, or GDP growth rate on your website
I receive a lot of emails asking about the current inflation and interest rates. So I decided to create a few widgets.
You can use these widgets if you want to display the current interest rates, inflation rates and/or GDP growth rates on your own blog or website.
The widgets automatically fetch the latest figures that are available.
If, for example, the SARB decides to adjust the repo rate, the widgets will automatically fetch and display the new repo and prime rate figures.
Latest Rates Table
To display a table with all the latest rates (like the one at the top of this page), use the following HTML:
Prime Interest Rate
To display the current prime interest rate (like this: ), use the following HTML:
Repo Rate
To display the current repo rate (like this: ), use the following HTML:
CPI Inflation Rate
To display the current CPI inflation rate (like this: ), use the following HTML:
PPI Inflation Rate
To display the current PPI inflation rate (like this: ), use the following HTML:
GDP Growth Rate
To display the current GDP growth rate (like this: ), use the following HTML:
July 10th, 2009 at 10:12 pm
Great job and widget you made. I will try it on one of my blogs. Thank you
October 29th, 2009 at 09:08 am
Can you add the following to your “Latest Rates” table:
Exchange Rates:
R/$US
R/ GB pond
R/euro
Oil Price per Barrel
I want to display all the rates as a one pager on my PC every day.
December 8th, 2009 at 11:21 am
@Marius
I agree those are useful.
I’ll have a look if I can add a table for exchange rates.
January 15th, 2010 at 10:19 am
This is great resource. Thank you very much.
I am looking for a web service that supplies the latest interest rate. I am writing an Insurance Program that need to use the interest rate. Currently I have to enter this manually. Can you point me in the right direction as to where I can find a websiervice that will supply the interest rate.
January 15th, 2010 at 11:21 am
Hey Robert
I don’t think such a web-service exists. I integrate directly with a database to enable the web-widgets.
Perhaps you can get the value by doing a web-request from your application and parsing the result?
March 23rd, 2010 at 05:30 pm
awesome thanks for sharing bud!!!
October 13th, 2010 at 11:13 am
Great website, and a nice summary
No useless information
Do you guys think the prime rate will decline next year?
October 16th, 2010 at 11:38 pm
Nice resource page – well done and thank you!
January 14th, 2011 at 05:30 pm
Awesome tool! Love the way it can display individually in plain text, which I can format myself. Streaming live on a client’s website as we speak. Any chance of target=_blank?
Also, wondering if you managed to get major exchange rates working, as per your response on 8/12/2009?
January 30th, 2011 at 09:23 am
I cant seem to get the link to display numeric charactors on our business news page, I copied the whole link. We need the prime and repo rates. 011 023 5530
January 31st, 2011 at 09:23 am
@Mwendabai
I tested all the links again and they work correctly. There may be something wrong with the way you’re inserting the links (it has to go directly into the HTML), or perhaps JavaScript is disabled on your server.
@Willi
Unfortunately not yet.
January 31st, 2011 at 11:21 am
I will try again or get our IT consultant to assist:) Many thank!
February 21st, 2011 at 10:24 am
Hi Francois
Do you have a link that could be drawn exchane rates into a Excel spreadsheet?
March 2nd, 2011 at 09:22 pm
@John
Unfortunately not.
March 3rd, 2011 at 06:37 am
Hi Francois
I discover a way myself to do it.
You use the menu “DATA” and choose the “FROM WEB” option.
Once you have linked it with the information you want you only need to use the “REFRESH ALL” button to get the latest update.
This way you can draw almost any information from the web.
Hope that this will assist somebody.
March 3rd, 2011 at 01:02 pm
@John
Thanks, that is a good tip!
March 28th, 2011 at 09:44 am
I have added the widget to one of my websites but the style is not what I expected. Is there anyway I could get it to display in the same font and colour as my site? It Currently displays in Times Roman and Black with the standard link style of blue.
March 28th, 2011 at 01:09 pm
@George
Yes there is.
Open the table source (http://liberta.co.za/widgets/latest_rates_table.js.php) in a web browser.
You’ll notice that it just writes a normal table out as HTML.
So you can for example place that table in a DIV tag and specify the table style by modifying the CSS for that DIV for your site.
Also notice that there are classes assigned to some of the table cells (e.g. <td class=”rate_name”>). So you can add a CSS entry just for those class names too, if you want to do it that way.
June 3rd, 2011 at 11:44 am
I’d love to have that table on my desktop. Can it be done?
August 22nd, 2011 at 09:53 am
@Jacqueline
Check out Snippage.
It allows you to capture a section of any website and display it on your Desktop. So, you can just capture the table from this page, as an example.
Here is a post that demonstrates how to use Snippage:
http://www.addictivetips.com/windows-tips/display-live-web-page-content-on-your-desktop-with-snippage-widgets/