Tag: Mario Marcel

Thursday, August 21st 2025 - 20:22 UTC
Marcel resigns as Chile's Finance Minister for personal reasons

Mario Marcel on Thursday turned in his resignation as Chile's Finance Minister, just one day after Esteban Valenzuela left Agriculture. While Marcel's decision was reported to be due to strictly personal reasons, Valenzuela's departure just seven months from the end of President Gabriel Boric Font's term follows alliances ahead of this year's elections.
Monday, May 5th 2025 - 09:07 UTC
Chile: Presidential candidate Tohá dating Minister Marcel

Former Chilean Interior Minister and presidential hopeful on behalf of the Democratic Socialism coalition, Carolina Tohá, admitted during an interview this weekend that she was romantically involved with Finance Minister Mario Marcel. It all began gradually in 2022, during her first year as a Cabinet member, she explained. Their professional bond dates back to the 1990s when Marcel was her boss.
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).