{"id":36030,"date":"2013-02-07T18:35:32","date_gmt":"2013-02-07T23:35:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/countingpips.com\/forex-news\/?p=36030"},"modified":"2013-02-07T18:35:32","modified_gmt":"2013-02-07T23:35:32","slug":"peru-holds-rate-steady-sees-inflation-converging-to-target","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex-news\/2013\/02\/07\/peru-holds-rate-steady-sees-inflation-converging-to-target\/","title":{"rendered":"Peru holds rate steady, sees inflation converging to target"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By <a href=\"http:\/\/www.centralbanknews.info\/\"><u>www.CentralBankNews.info<\/u><\/a> &nbsp; &nbsp; Peru&#8217;s central bank kept its policy rate steady at 4.25 percent, saying inflation is expected to converge toward the bank&#8217;s 2.0 percent mid-point target in coming months, reflecting improved supply of food and economic activity that is close to its potential during a time of weak global output.<br \/>&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;The Central Reserve Bank of Peru (BCRP), which has held rates steady since April 2011, also said the country&#8217;s economy had stabilized around its sustainable, long-term level of activity although sectors that depend on external markets remain weak.<br \/>&nbsp; &nbsp;Peru&#8217;s inflation rate rose to 2.87 percent in January, up from December&#8217;s 2.65 percent, still within the central bank&#8217;s target range of 1.0-3.0 percent.<br \/>&nbsp; &nbsp; Peru&#8217;s <span style=\"background-color: white;font-family: inherit;line-height: 16px\">Gross Domestic Product rose by an annual rate of 6.5 percent in the third quarter of 2012, up from 6.3 percent in the second quarter.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"background-color: white;font-family: inherit;line-height: 16px\">&nbsp; &nbsp; At its previous meeting in January, the central bank also said it expects inflation to converge toward its 2.0 percent target.&nbsp;<\/span><br \/><span style=\"background-color: white;font-family: inherit;line-height: 16px\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"background-color: white;font-family: inherit;line-height: 16px\">&nbsp; &nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.centralbanknews.info\/\" target=\"_blank\"> www.CentralBankNews.info<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By www.CentralBankNews.info &nbsp; &nbsp; Peru&#8217;s central bank kept its policy rate steady at 4.25 percent, saying inflation is expected to converge toward the bank&#8217;s 2.0 percent mid-point target in coming months, reflecting improved supply of food and economic activity that is close to its potential during a time of weak global output.&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;The Central Reserve &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex-news\/2013\/02\/07\/peru-holds-rate-steady-sees-inflation-converging-to-target\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Peru holds rate steady, sees inflation converging to target&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36030","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36030","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36030"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36030\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36030"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36030"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36030"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}