Tag: Mario Marcel

• Thursday, November 10th 2022 - 10:07 UTC

  Chile's interannual inflation on downward path

  

  Chile's inflation in October reached 0.5 % over the previous month, the National Statistics Institute (INE) reported this week. The new figure means an accumulated 11.4 % in the first ten months of 2022 and 12.8 % interannually.

• Wednesday, August 17th 2022 - 09:42 UTC

  Chile Day in London next December 12/13. Finance minister attending

  

  Chilean Finance minister Mario Marcel will be attending the eleventh edition of the Chile Day in London scheduled to take place next December with the purpose of strengthening economic and financial relations between the two countries in a raft of disciplines. The two-day event is expected to take place 12/13 December.

• Monday, May 23rd 2022 - 22:39 UTC

  Boric enacts minimum-wage increase bill for Chileans

  

  Chile's President Gabriel Boric Font Monday signed into law a minimum wage hike so that “no one is left behind.”

• Friday, January 21st 2022 - 20:35 UTC

  Most of Chile's future ministers will be women, Boric announces

  

  Chile's President-elect, Gabriel Boric, Friday chose former Central Bank President Mario Marcel as the country's future Finance Minister of Finance, and former mendica College Head for Minister of the Interior as he announced his cabinet, which shall be made up of mostly women. Boric will take office on March 11.

• Wednesday, September 1st 2021 - 09:20 UTC

  Chilean central bank surprises markets: basic interest rate doubled to 1,5%

  

  The Monetary Council of the Chilean central bank surprised markets on Monday by deciding to increase the basic interest rate 75 base points to 1,5%, the highest jump since August 2001. According to a bank release, the decision from the council was unanimous, and well beyond market expectations that had estimated an increase of 25 to 50 base points.

• Friday, July 2nd 2021 - 09:20 UTC

  Chile's economy grows 18.1% thanks to pension withdrawals and state emergency funding

  

  Chile's Central Bank Thursday reported an 18.1% economic growth in May, which has brought it back to the pace of prepandemic levels.

• Sunday, April 14th 2019 - 08:04 UTC

  Cambridge Centre for Alternative Finance launches collaboration network in Chile

  

  A group of UK experts visited Santiago during March 2019 to inaugurate a fintech collaboration network with the United Nations Economic Commission for Latina America and the Caribbean (UNECLAC). This was an outcome of an intense agenda of activities carried out in Chile last October by the Cambridge Centre for Alternative Finance, (CCAF).