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!!!