Investor Presentaiton
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Monetary policies focused on bringing down inflation
and anchoring inflation expectations within target
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Commitment to
Lower Inflation
Key focus is to lower inflation and anchor inflation expectations within the
target band in a sustainable way.
Short-term
Interest Rate as
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new Policy
Instrument
New monetary policy instrument under inflation targeting regime.
Designed to improve market signals and allows for fine-tuning of monetary
policy at higher frequency.
Enhanced
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Transparency in
Communication
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Counter-cyclical
Monetary Policy
Stance
Higher frequency in Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) meetings, published
minutes of MPC, relaunched inflation survey, among others.
■ Publication of Central Bank's inflation projections and survey of firms' inflation.
expectations.
■ To respond to the Covid-19 health emergency, monetary policy had been in an
expansionary mode.
■ As the pandemic has eased, the Central Bank announced a gradual shift towards
a more contractionary monetary policy stance, three times increasing the
reference rate by an cumulative 125 bps, to 5.75% by November 11th, 2021.
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Financial De-
Dollarization
Rebuilding markets in local currency to mitigate financial dollarization and
developing FX derivatives markets.
Source: Central Bank of Uruguay.
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