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Friday, July 8, 2011

Mexico Central Bank Keeps Benchmark Rate Unchanged

The “pace of economic activity appears to have slowed,” while domestic demand has lost some dynamism, the central bank said in the monetary decision statement. “We don’t expect generalized price pressures in the economy,” the bank said.

Banxico, as Mexico’s central bank is known, is saying “the traditional list of domestic risks to inflation is practically clean. The risks could come from international volatility,” Luna said in a telephone interview from Mexico City.

Industrial production grew 1.4 percent in April from a year earlier -- the slowest expansion since the 0.6 percent increase posted in December 2009 -- from 4.4 percent in March, the nation’s statistics agency reported June 13.

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