Central Bank of Chile Reduces Key Rate by Additional 250 Basis Points
February 13, 2009
A week after cutting its benchmark rate by 100 basis points to 7.25%, the Chilean Central Bank slashed it to 4.75%. A released statement pointed to a significant and greater-than-expected drop of inflation and a bigger emergence of excess aggregate supply that will promote a continuing ebbing of inflation. All this is happening against the background of a severe global recession. Looser monetary policy is appropriate and possible given with inflation not being the concern it was.
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