The Bank of Mexico building in Mexico City. Photo: HENRY ROMERO/REUTERS MEXICO CITY—The Bank of Mexico kept interest rates unchanged on Thursday for a fourth consecutive meeting, as expected, reiterating that it expects to stay on hold for a prolonged period.

“We’ve stressed this in recent years, and it illustrates the importance of having solid macroeconomic foundations, and that involves monetary policy, fiscal policy, exchange-rate policy and stability in the financial system,” he said. Mr. Díaz de León took over the helm of the central bank in December 2017, when his predecessor, Agustín Carstens, cut short his second term to head the Bank for International Settlements in Switzerland. Mr. López Obrador, who is due to take office Dec. 1, has...

MEXICO CITY—The new governor of the Bank of Mexico said Monday that all options are on the table ahead of next week’s policy decision, his first at the helm of the bank, as inflation remains above expectations and the U.S. Federal Reserve has hinted at a December rate increase. Mexico’s central bank has been on hold since June after a prolonged cycle of interest-rate increases that put borrowing costs at 7%, the highest since early 2009. But Alejandro Díaz de León, in one of his first...