MEXICO CITY: Mexico’s central bank raised its benchmark interest rate to a new eight-year high Thursday, seeking to rein in inflation.

It raised the key rate for Latin America’s second-largest economy a quarter-point, to seven percent -- the highest level since February 2009, when the international financial crisis was at its height.

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