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Further reductions to our growth forecasts for Chile (A/Negative) and Colombia (BBB-/Negative) due to the coronavirus pandemic will mean faster increases in budget deficits and public debt this year, Fitch Ratings says. The ability to develop credible medium-term plans to reverse...

Finance Colombia arranged a meeting with key analysts with Standard & Poor to understand how this might play out for LATAM and Avianca, the two full service carriers that operate domestic routes in Colombia.

Colombia’s President Iván Duque Márquez announced yesterday, from his Twitter account, the appointment of University of Los Andes economist Arturo José Galindo Andrade as the new co-director of the Banco de la República, Colombia’s Central Bank, replacing José Antonio Ocampo. “I...

Colombia’s Constitutional Court invalidated several articles of the President Ivan Duque’s “Ley de Financiamiento” fiscal reform law that was approved at the end of 2018 declaring them unenforceable. This means that the government has until January 1 2020 to return to...

The bank left the door open for a future rate cut, saying that the interest rate is now "close to its neutral level, although there is uncertainty about that level."

In the last Gallup poll of the year, more Colombians reported seeing a glass half full.

The Banco de la República (Central Bank of Colombia), the Bilateral Assistance and Capacity Building for Central Banks Program (BCC) at the Graduate Institute, and the Swiss Secretariat for Economic Affairs (SECO) are jointly organizing a conference on Policy Lessons and...

The Board of Colombia’s Bank of The Republic, at its meeting last Friday decided to keep the benchmark interest rate at 4.5%. According a statement released by the Central Bank, the Board took into consideration the following aspects when reaching its decision: The average...

Colombia’s Finance Minister Mauricio Cardenas said Friday from Puerto Inirida, Guainia, that the unemployment rate in Colombia dropped to 10.8% for January 2015, “in an environment of increased labor force participation by Colombian households with an increase in...

Photo credit: Loren Moss According to statistics released by DANE (National Department of Statistics), Colombia faced a 2014 inflation rate of 3.66%, an increase of 88% over 2013. The government statistics are important because many charges are set and adjusted annually based on...