The highlight of the week was clearly the 0.45% inflation print for December — which dragged the full-year figure or 2023 to 9.28%, below the 9.45% expected.
The Colombian peso moved towards 3,900 to the US dollar — and there appears little to suggest it will move it back towards the 4,200 level given current oil prices.
Minvivienda, Colombia’s ministry of housing has announced that 28 year old macroeconomics profesor Carlos Alberto Ruiz Martinez has been named the vice-minister in charge of housing for Colombia. Ruiz is an economist at Universidad Nacional (National University) and holds a...