Considering the main internal and external variables stable, the Bank of Guatemala is keeping the leading policy rate, a major reference for interest rates in the country, unchanged.
The Bank of Guatemala is maintaining at 5% the leading policy rate, the reference for interest rates in the domestic financial system.
The Monetary Board has decided to keep the leading monetary policy interest rate at 5%, based on a comprehensive analysis of the external and domestic economic situations.
The Monetary Board has decided to keep the monetary policy leading interest rate at 5.00%, based on a comprehensive analysis of the external and internal situation.
The Monetary Board, at its meeting today, decided to maintain at 5.25% the monetary policy leader interest rate, based on a comprehensive analysis of the external and internal situation, after being made aware of the Inflation Risk Balance .
The Monetary Board in its meeting today decided to keep the level of the monetary policy leading interest rate at 5.25%, based on comprehensive analysis of the external and internal situation, after finding out about the Balance Inflation Risks.
A study of the evolution of interest rates in El Salvador over 37 years concludes that dollarization confirms the theory of parity between domestic and international interest rates .
From the concluding remarks of the study entitled "El Salvador: Determinants of interest rates" by Alirio Alfonso Fernandez:
After having increased in April by 0.25%, the Monetary Board of the Bank of Guatemala decided to keep the leading rate at 5.25%, with an eye on inflation control.
From a press release by the Bank of Guatemala (Banguat):
The Monetary Board in its meeting today, decided to keep the level of 5.25% for the monetary policy leading interest rate, based on comprehensive analysis of the external and internal situation, after being made aware of the Balance of Inflation Risks.
Taking into account inflation expectations, the Monetary Board has increased the leading interest rate by 0.25% , going from 5% to 5.25%.
From a press release issued by the Bank of Guatemala (Banguat):
The Monetary Board in its meeting today, after learning the balance of inflation risks, based on comprehensive analysis of the external and internal situation, has decided to raise the level of the monetary policy leading interest rate by 25 base points, going from 5.00% to 5.25%.
The Monetary Board has raised the leading interest rate from 5% to 5.50% from today, September 29, 2011.
A press release from the Bank of Guatemala reads:
THE MONETARY BOARD RAISES THE LEADING INTEREST RATE OF THE MONETARY POLICY FROM 5.00% TO 5.50% AS OF THURSDAY 29 SEPTEMBER 2011
The Monetary Board in its meeting held on September 28, 2011, after being updated on the Balance of Inflation Risks, resulting from mechanical shifting of the Macroeconomic Semi-Structural Model and orientation of the indicative variables, based on a comprehensive analysis of internal and external economic events, decided by a majority to raise the level of the leading monetary policy interest rate by 50 basis points from 5.00% to 5.50%.
The recent increase in the value of the Costa Rican colon versus the dollar is worrisome, not only because there are no clear reasons to explain it, but also because it would be hard to contain it without causing greater problems.
In the past weeks, and without apparent reason, the price of the U.S. dollar in Costa Rica dropped considerably.
The Monetary Board decided not to modify the Leader Rate, which currently stands at 4.5%.
For this decision, the board pondered that most global growth projections point to an economic recovery.
"If this scenario comes to reality, and considering the recent behavior of commodity prices, it would be less necessary to continue with our previous monetary policy measures", stated the Board.
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