Raimundo Monge
Management
Good morning, ladies and gentlemen, once again, welcome to Banco Santander-Chile Third Quarter 2014 Results Conference call. This is Raimundo Monge, Director of Strategic Planning. I am joined today by Robert Moreno, Manager of Investor Relations. Thank you for attending today’s conference call in which we will discuss our performance in the third quarter of ‘14. Following the webcast presentation, we will be happy to answer any questions you might have. Before we go in to more detail regarding our results, we will briefly give our latest update on the economic outlook for the Chilean economy in 2014 and 2015. As forecasted, the economy continues to decelerate in the third quarter, mainly due to the lower-than-expected investment and consumption levels. 2014, we are anticipating GDP to grow around 1.9% with internal demand that is consumption plus investment expanding 1.2%. We expect the economy to rebound in 2015 with a GDP growth of around 3.2% and internal demand expanding 3.4%. The inflation rate measured by the variation of the U.S. and inflation linked unit and the most relevant indicator for banks should rise to 4.6% this year due to depreciation of the peso and the effects on prices of some goods [ph] as a result of the new tax law. We expect inflation to return into a more normal level of around 3% in 2015. Given this outlook, the Central Bank continue to cut interest rate in the quarter to 3%. We expect the central bank to pause its interest rate cuts as further reduction could depreciate the peso a fuel greater inflation. The quick [ph] rebound of the economy should be driven by various factors. First of all, the outlook of growth of Chile’s main trading partners especially the U.S. continues to strengthen. In fact, the weighted average GDP growth…