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Imminent issuance of a new license for Chevron
VENEZUELA · Report · 20 May 2025

Imminent issuance of a new license for Chevron: Bloomberg reported a possible 60-day extension of General License 41b which is set to expire next Tuesday, May 27th. This license gave Chevron 60 days to conclude operations in the joint ventures where it is a minority partner of Pdvsa. Althou...

Risks of high inflation and recession escalate
VENEZUELA · Report · 20 May 2025

The worsening outlook for Venezuela’s export revenue is heightening the already high inflation and recession risks we have been warning about. The country is facing a severe negative shock from the convergence of sharply deteriorating global oil market conditions, tighter sanctions on Venezuel...

Improving price stability but no good prospects for GDP
HUNGARY · Report · 20 May 2025

Energy prices remain favorable for importers such as Hungary, especially regarding crude oil. We still consider the occasionally repeated US threat of retaliatory tariffs on those who buy Russian energy as unlikely to materialize. However, an alternative plan by the EU to end all purchases of Rus...

Ibama approved Petrobras’s environmental license for oil exploration in the Amazon, the PDT will meet to mark the return of Lupi to the national leadership of the party, and the House will review the tax exemption bill
BRAZIL POLITICS · Report · 20 May 2025

The Brazilian Institute of Environment and Renewable Natural Resources (Ibama) yesterday approved the framework of the Wildlife Oiled Response and Protection Plan (PPAF), presented by Petrobras. This represents an important step in the environmental licensing process for oil exploration in the Fo...

Will President Boluarte be impeached? Economy booms in Q1 2025, but will slow in H2; BCRP to stand pat in 2025; Congress set to approve another pension fund withdrawal
PERU · Report · 20 May 2025

Politics took center stage in Peru in May. This report analyzes the key issues. In the first section, we discuss the Cabinet crisis, and whether it constitutes a preamble for the impeachment of President Dina Boluarte, whose governance has become fragile. Next, we discuss the robust 4.7% real GDP...

Consumer loans are going bad
CHINA FINANCIAL · Report · 20 May 2025

Special points to highlight in this report: - The latest data releases again reinforce the story we’ve been telling all year and much of last year: Beijing may talk a lot about the urgent need to boost domestic demand, and it may make weekly or even daily announcements about how it proposes t...

Budgets of various levels perform differently in 4M25 - subject to revenue sources
KAZAKHSTAN · In Brief · 20 May 2025

As the Kazakh economy reportedly posted strong growth in 4M25, as the short-term indicator (a monthly proxy of economic activity in six key sectors of the country’s economy) was up by 8.5% y-o-y, budget revenues in various segments of the budgetary system were reasonably strong. Meanwhile, a few ...

Beyond the horizon
BRAZIL ECONOMICS · Report · 19 May 2025

The Central Bank has likely come to the end of the monetary tightening cycle, or has reached very close to it, even as its own inflation forecasts remain above target for the relevant horizon. Moreover, these forecasts—highly dependent on demand behavior—still appear optimistic, based on the assu...

The government seeks to contain damage in the INSS CPI and other weekly topics
BRAZIL POLITICS · Report · 19 May 2025

The government is expected to announce spending cuts in the 2025 budget. The Finance Ministry is set to present President Lula with targeted measures to help meet the 2025 primary fiscal target. On Wednesday, May 21, Finance Minister Fernando Haddad will participate in a public hearing in the Low...

The government prepares 2025 budget cuts and fiscal measures, Congress advances the INSS CPI and tax reform debates, and Lula seeks political recovery with energy reform and a change in the cabinet
BRAZIL POLITICS · Report · 19 May 2025

The government is expected to announce budget cuts for 2025. On Thursday, May 22, the government will release the Primary Revenue and Expenditure Assessment Report. This is the first report of the year due to the delay in Congress’s approval of the 2025 Federal Budget. Throughout the week, pressu...

Slide Presentation: Colombia in a complex landscape
COLOMBIA · Presentation · 19 May 2025

Read a slide presentation on Colombia's outlook, including fiscal and monetary policy, the country's projected growth outlook, developments in external sectors, the impact of Trump's policies on Colombia’s exchange rate trajectory and trade balance, what's ahead for Ecopetrol, the political cli...

Economics: Familiar official pledges at the Banking Convention fail to address problems in credit access for MSMEs
MEXICO · Report · 19 May 2025

At the latest annual Banking Convention, the Sheinbaum administration served up the familiar petitions to facilitate access to credit for MSMEs (micro, small and medium-sized enterprises) and lower interest rates for that segment of the productive sector. Easier said than done, as history has sho...

Politics: Not much action on the legislative front by the end of the period
MEXICO · Report · 19 May 2025

Despite considerable time and effort expended in the halls of the legislature and in the mass media, including in the morning presidential press conferences, to giving the impression that the Fourth Transformation was advancing on the legislative front, the reality appears less spectacular. For t...

Israel’s Q1 GDP shows moderate rebound, but recovery remains uneven
ISRAEL · In Brief · 19 May 2025

Israel’s GDP grew at an annualized rate of 3.4% in the first quarter of 2025, up from 1.9% in Q4 2024, according to preliminary estimates released yesterday by the Central Bureau of Statistics. When adjusted for the drop in import taxes on vehicle purchases—technically included in GDP—the underly...

Trzaskowski wins (?) the first round by a tiny margin according to exit polls. The second will likely be lost.
POLAND · In Brief · 18 May 2025

According to the exit polls, Rafał Trzaskowski won the first round of presidential elections today. We expected this win (if confirmed by the actual results on Monday or Tuesday), but the exit polls give him only 30.8% vs 29.1% for Nawrocki. The actual election results may be even closer. In our ...

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