Banxico Shocks Markets, Bumps Interest Rates 50 Points

This is the 14th time in a row that Mexico’s Central Bank has raised the rate in a nearly two-year cycle
Read moreThis is the 14th time in a row that Mexico’s Central Bank has raised the rate in a nearly two-year cycle
Read morePULSE NEWS MEXICO By the year 2023, Mexico’s public debt is expected to reach 1.08 trillion pesos, representing an increase of 29.9 percent compared to the 2022 budget, according to a breakdown of President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s (AMLO) new proposed annual economic package. The 2023 package, which was presented by the AMLO administration to Congress on Thursday, Sept. 8,
Read moreXINHUA The Board of Governors of the Central Bank of Mexico (Banxico) agreed Thursday, Aug. 11, to raise the key benchmark interest rate for the 10th consecutive time, in anticipation of higher inflation in the short term. The new rate is 8.5 percent. Five members of the board voted unanimously to increase the target for the overnight interbank interest rate
Read moreBy ANTONIO GARZA, former U.S. ambassador to Mexico
Read moreBy MARK LORENZANA Just as Mexico’s inflation rate rose to 7.99 percent in June of this year, the U.S. financial services rating agency Standard & Poor’s (S&P) in its Global Ratings report on Wednesday, July 6, revised the outlook on its long-term ratings on Mexico from negative to stable. In addition, the S&P Global Ratings affirmed the country’s credit rating
Read morePULSE NEWS MEXICO Although the next meeting of the Central Bank of Mexico (Banxico) is not due until Thursday, June 23, Banxico’s deputy governor, Jonathan Heath, on Friday, June 10, said that its board members will most likely increase the base interest rate by 75 points during that next monetary policy vote. Heath said that the increase, which is highly
Read moreBy JUAN DE JESÚS BREENE If you are a digital nomad, with some or all of your income coming from outside of Mexico, right now might be the time to consider some financial “hedging” While many are familiar with hedging in a stock fund, for the international citizen, a different kind of hedging is at play that has nothing to
Read moreBy THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS Former Central Bank of Mexico (Banxico) Governor and current General Manager of the Bank for International Settlements (BIS) Agustín Carstens said Tuesday, April 5, that, like it or not, inflation is here to stay, at least for the foreseeable future. Speaking before the International Center for Monetary and Banking Studies in Geneva, Switzerland, Carstens, who served as
Read moreBy THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF The Central Bank of Mexico (Banxico) on Thursday, March 24, increased its baseline interest rate by 0.50 percentage points to 6.5 percent in response to soaring inflation, which reached 7.29 percent in the first half of March. This was the seventh time in a row that Banxico has raised the rate, and the third
Read moreXINHUA Mexico’s Central Bank (Banxico) on Thursday, Feb. 10, raised its key interest rate for the sixth consecutive time in response to what it called greater and longer-than-expected inflationary pressures. B Banxico said in a statement that its governing board had decided by majority vote to raise the target for the overnight interbank interest rate by 50 basis points, to
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