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Colombian government and private sector issue joint call for cuts
Finance minister talks of “economic deceleration”, but inflation is still in double digits
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Colombia’s finance ministry joined the national banking association and a business group to call on the Central Bank of Colombia to cut interest rates on September 4.
In a joint statement, the three institutions said data on household spending indicates “the necessity of bringing forward possible cuts in the Bank of the Republic’s [the central bank] policy rate”.
Finance minister Ricardo Bonilla told a press conference at his ministry that the country had entered a period of “economic
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