Minutes of the Board of Directors
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- Noticias |Headline inflation in December stood at 5.1%, slightly lower than the 5.2% figure for year-end 2024. Core inflation - which excludes food and regulated items - rose from 4.85% to 5.02% between November and December, and it was also at a level close to that recorded in December 2024 (5.15%). These…
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In its policy discussion, the Board of Directors considered the following factors:
- Noticias |Headline inflation rose again in September for the third consecutive month, reaching 5.2%, a level last seen at yearend 2024. Core inflation, excluding food and regulated items, remained at 4.8%.Inflation expectations, as measured by surveys and the public debt market, increased in October. Median…
- Noticias |Headline inflation stood at 5.1% in August, while core inflation excluding food and regulated items ended the month at 4.8%, exceeding the technical staff’s forecasts. The largest deviation was seen in food, primarily in perishable items and in the international prices of certain foods and…
- Noticias |Annual inflation in June fell to 4.8% from 5.1% in May, chiefly as a result of waning inflation in the food and regulated baskets. Food inflation fell from 4.7% to 4.3%, mainly due to a reduction in perishables inflation. Regulated products inflation fell from 6.3% to 5.5%, driven by lower…
- Noticias |Between April and May, annual inflation edged down slightly—from 5.2% to 5.1%—while core inflation (excluding food and regulated items) fell mildly from 4.9% to 4.8%. This modest deceleration reflects rigidity in key baskets such as food and services, offset by a small rebound in goods inflation.…
- Noticias |Annual inflation resumed its downward trend between February and March, declining from 5.3% to 5.1%. By components, results were mixed: inflation for goods and food increased, while that for regulated items and services decreased. Core inflation—excluding food and regulated items—continued to…
- Noticias |Annual inflation increased marginally to 5.3% in February, following a three-month period of stability at 5.2%. The most significant increases were observed in the prices of processed foods and certain regulated items, including gas and transportation. Core inflation (excluding food and regulated…
- Noticias |In December, annual inflation remained at 5.2%, unchanged from the levels seen in November. Monthly inflation (0.46%) driven by food price inflation, which climbed from 2.3% to 3.3%, exceeded the expectations of both the market (0.40%) and the technical staff (0.34%). Core inflation, excluding food…
- Noticias |In November, annual inflation fell to 5.2%, below the 5.4% seen in October. Core inflation, excluding food and regulated items, remained close to 5.4%, as a result of persistent inflationary pressures in the services sub-basket (7.3%). The latter is due to upward pressures from the food away from…
- Noticias |Annual inflation dropped from 6.1% to 5.8% between August and September. Leading this decline was the regulated items group, whose annual inflation decreased by one percentage point from 11.1% to 10.1%, mainly driven by the fuels component. Food inflation also registered a significant drop (from 3.…
- Noticias |Annual inflation fell in August to 6.1%, below forecasts by the Bank’s technical staff and the market. This easing was partly driven by lower-than-expected prices in the food basket, with food inflation falling from 5.3% to 3.4% between July and August, primarily resulting from an ample supply of…
- Noticias |Annual inflation rose slightly from 7.16% to 7.18% between May and June. Core inflation excluding food and regulated items decreased from 6.1% to 6.0%, aligning with the technical staff's forecasts. Annual food inflation continued to increase, from 4.4% to 5.3%, driven by climatic factors affecting…
- Noticias |Annual inflation remained unchanged in May at 7.2%, while core inflation (excluding food or regulated items) fell from 6.4% to 6.1%. Annual food inflation was slightly higher than expected, increasing from 3% to 4.4%, owing to a rebound in the prices of some perishable foods whose impact from the…
- Noticias |In March, annual headline inflation reached 7.4%, completing 12 months of consecutive declines from its March 2023 peak of 13.3%. Likewise, inflation excluding food and regulated items significantly decreased and stood at 6.8% in March. The reduction in annual inflation was largely driven by…
- Noticias |Annual headline inflation continued its downward trend during February, standing at 7.7% and exhibiting a cumulative drop of 1.5 percentage points (pp) during the first two months of the year. Likewise, annual inflation, excluding food and regulated items, had a 1.2 pp drop which, coupled with a…
- Noticias |By December, annual inflation had dropped for the ninth consecutive month and closed the year at 9.28%, in line with the technical staff’s December projection. Food and goods (excluding food and regulated items) fronted the inflationary decline, standing at 5% and 7.1% by yearend, respectively.…
- Noticias |Inflation remains on a downward path, falling for eight consecutive months and reaching 10.15% in November. The decrease in the annual food inflation from 10.36% in October to 8.25% in November substantially contributed to moderating headline inflation. In particular, the significant drop in annual…
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Five Directors voted in favor of this decision, and two voted for a 25 basis-point reduction. In its policy discussion, the Board of Directors considered the following elements:
- Noticias |In August, headline inflation stood at 0.7%, above that expected by the technical staff and the market analysts (0.5%). Annual headline inflation came in at 11.4% and core inflation (excluding food and regulated items) at 9.9%. Although both inflation measures continued on a downward trajectory,…
