Banxico keeps rates unchanged at 7.5% as per expectations
Unanimous decision
- Mexican Central bank kept rates unchanged at 7.5% as her expectations
- The decision was unanimous
- prioritizes the MXN impact on CPI ahead of Fed posture
- probability of negative NAFTA outcome reduce recently
- NAFTA, Fed, election present MXN and CPI risks
- Lists agricultural prices, labor costs among additional MXN and CPI risk
- CPI slowdown so far in 2018 in line with expectations
- Mexican economy is in best position to face shocks
- Mexico economy faces complicated panorama going forward
- private demand has continued to expand this year
- balance of risks to Mexico economy maintains downward bias
- data show services, some industrial driving economy
The USDMXN remains below the 100 week MA at 18.92651. The pair has been testing the 38.2% of the move up from the 2013 high at18.17502, but above the 2017 and 2016 lows at 17.4461 and 17.0472 respectively.

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