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Mexico: Interest rates on hold until 2013?

The latest Mexican Inflation Report confirms that policymakers are in no mood to begin monetary tightening. The recent global market turmoil underlines that the downside risks to Mexican growth that we have warned about for some time reinforces our view that interest rates will stay on hold at 4.5% for at least another year. In fact, the first hike may now be pushed back into 2013.

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