Wednesday, June 6, 2007

Mexico markets off on ECB rate hike, US rate view

(Reuters) - The benchmark IPC stock index closed 1.83 percent
lower at 31,681.76 points, snapping a five-session rally. The
peso gave up 0.58 percent in local trading to
reach 10.868 per dollar.




The ECB raised interest rates by a quarter percentage point
to 4 percent on Wednesday. In the United States, productivity
revisions showed a bigger-than-expected spike in unit labor
costs, which are often seen as a precursor of inflation and
could discourage central bankers from cutting rates.


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