The statement accompanying the Chilean central bank’s decision to hold its policy rate at 3.00% on Friday night signalled that rates are likely to stay on hold for longer than they had previously anticipated. Our forecast for rates to remain unchanged this year were already more dovish than the markets. And there’s a growing risk that the rate hikes that we currently expect in 2020 come later than that.
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