Costa Rica’s Central Bank maintained its leading interest rate at 6.5% after a 50 bps cut in July and cumulative cuts of 250 bps since March. The country experienced an all-time low in annual inflation at 3.28% in August after declining by 2.29% in the previous month. Costa Rica’s economy grew by an average of 4.9% in the first five months of the year, a rate that has not generated inflationary pressures.