00:00This Saturday, the Junta Directiva of the Bank of the Republic decided to increase their interest rates in 100 points
00:06basic,
00:06llevándolas al 11,25%.
00:09This is the second consecutive occasion in which the bank took the determination
00:13not only to increase their interest rates, but to do it in this proportion.
00:18The decision, which super the expectations of analysts,
00:21was in the middle of a crisis in the Junta Directiva of the Bank Central,
00:25as the Minister of Hacienda, Germán Ávila, came out of the meeting and announced
00:29a profound agreement with the decision made this martes.
00:33Before that the decision of the bank, the Minister Ávila gave his own own press
00:37and said that the emissor is acting responding to the interests of the financial sector.
00:42According to Leonardo Villar, General General of the Bank of the Republic,
00:46the Junta Directiva of the Emissor took in account, among other factors,
00:50the recent comportment of inflation.
00:52The total inflation was located in 5,4% in January and 5,3% in February,
00:58above the observed level of the end of 2025, which was of 5,1%.
01:04Something similar happened with the basic inflation, which excluded food and regulates.
01:08This indicator rose to 5,4% in January and 5,5% in February, above the 5% registered
01:15in December.
01:16Other factors, such as the growth of the PIB and even the war in Iran,
01:20comprometen el crecimiento y la estabilidad de la economía mundial
01:23e interfieren en la decisión del Banco de la República.
01:27Estas decisiones, colectivamente hablando, pueden ponerle un freno a la demanda,
01:31lo que a su vez puede terminar por bajar los precios de algunos bienes
01:35y, por ese camino, empujar hacia abajo la inflación.
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