Mexico’s headline inflation rate was unchanged at 7.8% y/y in December but policymakers at the central bank will have taken comfort from the fact that core price pressures are finally easing. The Board has already signalled that it will deliver another interest rate hike at February’s meeting but we think that it will be a smaller 25bp increase (to 10.75%) and that this will mark the end of the tightening cycle.
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