Central Reserve Bank of Peru’s Policy Interest Rate Left Steady at 3.5%
October 12, 2017
At Board meetings in May, July and September, three of the four 25-basis point central bank interest rate hikes implemented between September 2015 and February 2016 were reversed. A reversal of supply shocks enabled inflation to drop back into the 1-3% target range in September after spiking to 3.2% in August, but officials had anticipated such and eased policy at the previous meeting in the middle of last month. A statement released today reiterates that GDP is expanding more slowly than its supply-side potential pace but also expresses some optimism about growth: “The indicators of business expectations have continued to improve in September and remain
on the optimistic side. Expectations of GDP growth for 2017 show rates between 2.5 and 2.9 percent.”
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