March brought a smaller-than-anticipated increase in Chile’s consumer prices, easing concerns at the Central Bank amid slow inflation decline towards the target rate. Prices edged up by just 0.4% from February, falling below Bloomberg survey predictions of a 0.6% rise. Consequently, the year-over-year inflation rate dropped to 3.7%. The Central Bank of Chile recently decelerated […]
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