Latinnews Daily - 12 October 2007

CHILE: The central bank kept the interest rate at 5.75% on 11 October. It has crept it from 5% over the last five months in order to contain inflationary pressure. Inflation in September was 1.1% and 6.2% for the first nine months of the year. This is already greater than the government's annual prediction of 5.5%.