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The Bloomberg Commodity Spot Price Index - which encompasses all major commodities, including metals, energy and food - has fallen 10% since the beginning of this year.
Despite the signs of weakness in the economy, we believe that the Central Bank will maintain a more conservative stance: if warranted, it will prefer to cut the rate more aggressively when the time comes, rather than start the cuts earlier and more timidly for fear of making a mistake.
Prudence indicates that we should wait for the end of the rate hike cycle to return to investing, but beware that time deposits no longer pay what they did a few months ago and inflation is also falling.
The Central Bank will remain steadfast in its goal of propping up inflation towards its two-year target of 3%, and until that happens, it will not begin to reduce the monetary policy rate.
In the short term, the good news should continue: for May we expect the CPI to increase 0.2% with respect to April, which would bring the year-on-year variation to 8.8%.
At the last FOMC (Federal Open Market Committee) meeting, they changed the forward guidance of their statement, hinting that there is a good chance that this will be the last rate hike of this cycle.
The Central Bank's constitutional mandate is inflation; therefore, its measures should be aimed at achieving that objective and no other.
Core inflation is leaning in a more comfortable direction, so it would be reasonable to conclude that the Fed could adopt a wait-and-see approach at its next meeting, effectively ending the tightening cycle.
