{"id":23316,"date":"2011-08-19T17:16:00","date_gmt":"2011-08-19T21:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/countingpips.com\/fx\/?guid=0ecf1f6aa26b0e350255e8c92dc5409f"},"modified":"2011-08-19T17:16:00","modified_gmt":"2011-08-19T21:16:00","slug":"chilean-central-bank-holds-interest-rate-at-5-25","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/2011\/08\/19\/chilean-central-bank-holds-interest-rate-at-5-25\/","title":{"rendered":"Chilean Central Bank Holds Interest Rate at 5.25%"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"background-color: white;\"><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px;\">The&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bcentral.cl\/eng\/index.asp\" style=\"color: #3778cd; text-decoration: none;\">Banco Central de Chile<\/a>&nbsp;held its monetary policy interest rate unchanged at 5.25%. &nbsp;<\/span><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif;\"><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px;\">The Bank noted concerns about the global&nbsp;environment, including slower growth in the EU and US, as well as and increase in &#8220;financial volatility and risk aversion&#8221;. &nbsp;On its own economy the Bank <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bcentral.cl\/eng\/press\/communications\/pdf\/18082011.pdf\">said<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/span><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"background-color: white;\"><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif;\"><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px;\">: &#8220;Domestically, output, demand and labor market figures are evolving strongly and are showing signs of moderation at the margin. &nbsp;However, in the case of product and demand,such moderation has been less than foreseen in the baseline scenario of June&#8217;s MonetaryPolicy Report. &nbsp;CPI inflation has hovered around 3% y\u2010o\u2010y while measures of core inflationremain bounded. &nbsp;Inflation expectations show a significant decline and are close to the target.&#8221;<\/span><\/span><\/span><br \/><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px;\"><\/span><br \/><a name='more'><\/a>The Chile&#8217;s central bank previously also held the monetary policy <a href=\"http:\/\/www.centralbanknews.info\/2011\/07\/banco-central-de-chile-holds-monetary.html\">interest rate unchanged<\/a> at 5.25% at its July meeting. &nbsp;The Bank last raised its&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.centralbanknews.info\/2011\/06\/central-bank-of-chile-raises-interest.html\" style=\"color: #3778cd; text-decoration: none;\">monetary policy<\/a>&nbsp;interest rate by 25 basis points to 5.25% at its&nbsp;June&nbsp;meeting this year. &nbsp;The Bank said core inflation is holding around 3%, which is in the middle of the Bank&#8217;s 2-4% inflation target. &nbsp;Chile reported annual consumer price inflation of 2.9% in July, compared to 3.4% in June, 3.3% in May 2011, and 3.2% in April this year. &nbsp;The Chilean economy grew 8.4% in the first half of 2011, driven by strong domestic demand; full year GDP growth is expected around 6.5%, while inflation is seen around 4% by the end of the year.<\/p>\n<div style=\"font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px;\">\n<div style=\"font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px;\"><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"background-color: white;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.centralbanknews.info\/\" style=\"color: #3778cd; text-decoration: none;\">www.CentralBankNews.info<\/a><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img width='1' height='1' src='https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/8290544642025682538-5178126721721645763?l=www.centralbanknews.info' alt='' \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The&nbsp;Banco Central de Chile&nbsp;held its monetary policy interest rate unchanged at 5.25%. &nbsp;The Bank noted concerns about the global&nbsp;environment, including slower growth in the EU and US, as well as and increase in &#8220;financial volatility &#8230;<\/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-23316","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23316","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23316"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23316\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23316"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23316"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23316"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}