Chile consumer prices barely budge in November amid unrest

Chilean consumer prices rose 0.1% in November, the government's statistics agency said on Friday, as annual inflation rose closer to its target. Annual inflation hit 2.7%, still towards the lower end of the bank's 2% to 4% range through creeping closer to its 3% target.

Unrest last month sent Chile's peso spiraling to a historic low against the dollar. The most violent, widespread protests to hit the country since its return to democracy in 1990 have left at least 26 dead. Statistics agency INE did not mention the protests in a statement accompanying the data release. The central bank this week said a recently announced $5.5 billion fiscal stimulus plan and the depreciating peso could help push long-lagging inflation upwards in the coming months. The bank expects inflation to hit 3.4% in 2019.