Bank of Mexico expects cooling inflation to allow for more rate cuts -minutes

BY Reuters | ECONOMIC | 10/10/24 11:15 AM EDT

MEXICO CITY, Oct 10 (Reuters) - The Bank of Mexico's five-member governing board expects that easing inflation could allow further adjustments to the benchmark interest rate, minutes from the bank's September monetary policy decision showed on Thursday.

Banxico, as the Mexican central bank is known, lowered its benchmark interest rate by 25 basis points to 10.50% in a four to five decision by its governing board announced on September 26. (Reporting by David Alire Garcia and Anthony Esposito)

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