{"id":60234,"date":"2014-09-11T20:24:02","date_gmt":"2014-09-12T00:24:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/countingpips.com\/?p=60234"},"modified":"2014-09-12T07:03:25","modified_gmt":"2014-09-12T11:03:25","slug":"chile-cuts-rate-again-and-may-consider-further-stimulus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex\/2014\/09\/chile-cuts-rate-again-and-may-consider-further-stimulus\/","title":{"rendered":"Chile cuts rate again and may consider further stimulus"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"inves-1023921077\" class=\"inves-below-title-posts inves-entity-placement\"><div id =\"posts_date_custom\"><div align=\"left\">September 11, 2014<\/div><hr style=\"border: none; border-bottom: 3px solid black;\">\r\n<\/div><\/div><p>By <a href=\"http:\/\/www.centralbanknews.info\/\"><u>CentralBankNews.info<\/u><\/a><br \/>\n&nbsp; &nbsp; Chile&#8217;s central bank cut its monetary policy rate by a further 25 basis points to 3.25 percent and reiterated its recent that guidance that it would consider further monetary stimulus if necessary to ensure that inflation meets its target of 3.0 percent.<br \/>&nbsp;<span style=\"font-family: inherit\"> &nbsp;&nbsp;<span style=\"background-color: white\"><span style=\"line-height: 16px\">&nbsp; The Central Bank of Chile, which has now cut its rate by 175 basis points since October last year,&nbsp;issued the following statement:<\/span><\/span><\/span><br \/><span style=\"background-color: white\"><span style=\"line-height: 16px\"><span style=\"font-family: inherit\"><br \/><\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-family: inherit\"><span style=\"background-color: white\"><span style=\"line-height: 16px\">&nbsp; &nbsp; &#8220;<\/span><\/span>In its monthly monetary policy meeting, the Board of the Central Bank of Chile decided&nbsp;<\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-family: inherit\">to lower the monetary policy interest rate by 25 basis points, to 3.25% (annual).&nbsp;<\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-family: inherit\">Internationally, incoming information confirms the outlook of recovery of the United&nbsp;<\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-family: inherit\">States, and the weakening of Eurozone growth. Growth forecasts for emerging Asia&nbsp;<\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-family: inherit\">remain stable, while in Latin America there is confirmed weakness in a significant part&nbsp;<\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-family: inherit\">of the region. External financial conditions continue to be favorable. The prices of a&nbsp;<\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-family: inherit\">majority of commodities have dropped, while copper\u2019s has remained fairly stable.&nbsp;<\/span><br \/><a name='more'><\/a><br \/><span style=\"font-family: inherit\">&nbsp; &nbsp; Output, demand and employment indicators continue to reflect the low dynamism of&nbsp;<\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-family: inherit\">the Chilean economy. Even so, the unemployment rate remains low and the annual&nbsp;<\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-family: inherit\">growth rate of nominal wages has risen further. In August, headline inflation remained&nbsp;<\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-family: inherit\">at 4.5% annually. Medium-term inflation expectations remain around 3%, despite an&nbsp;<\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-family: inherit\">increase for the figure expected for the end of this year. The most likely scenario&nbsp;<\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-family: inherit\">continues to assume that inflation will stay above the upper bound of the tolerance&nbsp;<\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-family: inherit\">range still for some months, to later return to the target. This evolution will continue to&nbsp;<\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-family: inherit\">be monitored with special attention. Domestic credit conditions continue to be&nbsp;<\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-family: inherit\">favorable in general, partly reflecting the impact of the monetary stimulus.&nbsp;<\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-family: inherit\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"font-family: inherit\">&nbsp; &nbsp; The Board will consider the convenience of introducing further monetary stimulus in&nbsp;<\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-family: inherit\">line with the evolution of domestic and external macroeconomic conditions and its&nbsp;<\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-family: inherit\">implications on the inflationary outlook. At the same time, the Board reiterates its&nbsp;<\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-family: inherit\">commitment to conduct monetary policy with flexibility, so that projected inflation&nbsp;<\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-family: inherit\">stands at 3% over the policy horizon. &#8220;<\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-family: inherit\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"font-family: inherit\">&nbsp; &nbsp; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.centralbanknews.info\/\">www.CentralBankNews.info<\/a><\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-family: inherit\"><br \/><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By CentralBankNews.info &nbsp; &nbsp; Chile&#8217;s central bank cut its monetary policy rate by a further 25 basis points to 3.25 percent and reiterated its recent that guidance that it would consider further monetary stimulus if necessary to ensure that inflation meets its target of 3.0 percent.&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; The Central Bank of Chile, which has now [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-60234","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","no-post-thumbnail"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60234","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=60234"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60234\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60234"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60234"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60234"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}