Bank of Mexico Interest Rate Policy Stays Put
March 18, 2012
The Bank of Mexico retained a 4.5% benchmark interest rate as expected. A statement released March 16th concluded, “the Governing Board considers that the current stance of monetary policy is conducive to the permanent goal of inflation of 3 per cent, so it has decided to maintain unchanged the objective for the interbank interest rate to a day.” The last rate change, up or down, was a 75-basis point cut on July 17, 2009. Reductions in 2009 from a peak of 8.25% totaled 375 basis points. Mexican GDP last quarter rose just 1.7% annualized ad 3.7% from the final quarter of 2010. Consumer prices in February were 3.9% greater than a year earlier.
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