The decision was made in response to economic activity, family remittances and credit to the private sector showing dynamism, and the fact that inflation remains within the target.
From a statement issued by the Bank of Guatemala:
The Monetary Board (MB), based on a comprehensive analysis of the external and internal situation, after reviewing the Inflation Risks Balance, decided to keep the level of the leading monetary policy interest rate at 3%.
A slowdown in the domestic economy and slow recovery of the external sector has led the Bank of Guatemala to reduce the monetary policy rate from 4% to 3.5% .
The amount of inflation expected in 2015 is one of the reasons why the Monetary Board has decided to reduce the interest rate benchmark from 4.5% to 4%, a level not seen since 2005.
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, 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.
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 maintained the leading interest rate for monetary policy at 5.5%.
At its meeting held on February 15th , 2012, the Monetary Board decided unanimously to maintain the level of the monetary policy leading interest rate at 5.50%, based on a comprehensive analysis of economic and financial events, internally and externally, after having been informed about the Inflation Risks Balance, as well as the results of the first implementation in 2012 of the semi-structural Macroeconomic Model and the orientation of the indicative variables of monetary policy, according to a press release by Banguat.
The central bank decided to lower in 0.5 basis points the leader interest rate, going from 5.25% to 4.75%.
'Some of the reasons for this decision are lower observed growth in inflation and lower inflation expectations' explained María Antonieta del Cid de Bonilla, Central Bank President.
Even though the reference interest rate ("tasa líder"), has dropped 1.75 percentage points so far this year, the rate for an average loan increased 0.67 points.
In January this year, the average interest rate for loans was 15.06%, raising to 15.73% by the end of June, according to data from the Banking Superintendence.
Junta Monetaria (the Monetary Board) decided to lower the leader rate of the monetary system by 0.50 basic points, dropping from 5.75% to 5.25%.
The reductions in the leader rate that the Junta Monetaria has been implementing since January 2009, a month in which the indicator was at 7.25%, still does not reflect the interest rates that the banks are charging.
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