increase to 4% the estimate of growth for this year

A new upward adjustment was found in private projections for Chilean GDP growth this year. According to the Central Bank's Economic Outlook Survey (EEA), domestic activity would increase by 4% in 2018, two tenths more than that of the June consultation. The agents also estimate that June's Imacec would have risen 4.6% while the current quarter's product would have risen 3.7%. With regard to local expansion, mining sector compensation, we expect an increase of 3.8% over the year and an identical performance in the third quarter.

On the other hand, increases of 0.2% are expected from July and August inflation, closing the year with a 2.8% increase, while for 2019, the anticipations indicate a 3% advance, in the target center defined by the issuing entity.

In this scenario, respondents expect that the interest rate will remain at 2.50% at least until next September, with an adjustment of 25 basis points to 2.75% expected from Here at the end of the year and another of the same magnitude in the first half of 2019. [19659003Inthesametimelevelsof$640forthenexttwomonthsand$630foraperiodof11monthsarerecordedfortheexchange