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Gauteng Premier delivers the state of the province address focusing on growing the economy
SOUTH AFRICA · Report · 01 Jul 2019

Gauteng is the smallest province (land area) in South Africa, yet the most urbanised and fastest growing of the nine provinces. The province is considered the economic heartland of South Africa as it is the biggest contributor to the country’s GDP and plays a huge role in attracting investment fo...

Synthesis of the Brazilian Economy
BRAZIL ECONOMICS · Report · 01 Jul 2019

Looking beyond the dust and noise provoked by the disputes over deeply rooted and divergent interests, the pension reform proposal is making progress in Congress and might come up for a first floor vote in the Chamber of Deputies in July. The economy remains stagnant, and the first promising news...

Not much changed at the G20 meeting
CHINA FINANCIAL · Report · 01 Jul 2019

Special points to highlight in this issue: * Following the meetings in Osaka, markets have heaved sighs of relief, especially in China where the SCI 300 was up 2.9 percent today and where the agreement between Xi Jinping and Donald Trump has been presented as a triumph for Xi and a real reso...

Offshore foreign exchange and the yuan
CHINA ADVISORY · Report · 01 Jul 2019

The value of the Chinese currency depends to a great extent on Beijing’s ability to control capital flows. Over the past decade there have been numerous channels devised to bypass regulations, including false invoicing of manufactured goods, inflated service fees (expensive consultants abroad), t...

COSTA RICA: Q1 data reaffirms a slow start
CENTRAL AMERICA · Report · 01 Jul 2019

On June 28, the Central Bank published preliminary figures for Q1 GDP, Balance of Payments and External Debt. Results on the production front are neither encouraging, nor surprising: GDP grew only 1.8% y/y, after an increase of just 1.9% y/y in Q4-2018.

Higher bond issuance underlines some fiscal slippage
ISRAEL · Report · 01 Jul 2019

Economic growth appears to have slowed in 2Q2019. * The BOI composite index slowed to 0.1% y/y in May. * Employment growth has stalled in April-May. * Unemployment remains low (3.2% ages 25-64) on lower labor participation. * Chain store sales increased by 0.6% saar in March-M...

Life after Osaka
TURKEY · Report · 30 Jun 2019

Amidst a startling controversy about who said what during the Erdogan-Trump meeting, we change our baseline scenario on S-400s. Erdogan shall take delivery and the sanctions will go into effect latest by August, but they will be mild. Read on, this is not the end-game, which is at least 3-6 month...

A new corruption scandal shakes the country and hits Medina’s government hard
DOMINICAN REPUBLIC · In Brief · 28 Jun 2019

A new scandal has shaken the country. As a result of an investigation that lasted months on behalf of a network of journalists, international media revealed that Odebrecht paid bribes for almost USD 40 million to be favored with the award of the contract for almost USD 2 bn for the construction o...

Panama is back in the gray list of GAFI: an expected result with unpredictable consequences
PANAMA · Report · 27 Jun 2019

During the FATF (Financial Action Task Force, GAFI in Spanish) plenary meeting last week in Orlando, Florida , the Republic of Panama was added again to the gray list of non-cooperating countries in matters related to money laundering and financial transparency, despite the efforts made by the Ad...

COSTA RICA: Weathering hard times
CENTRAL AMERICA · Report · 26 Jun 2019

Costa Rica faces hard times, with consequences primarily for production and employment. After the first year of the new Carlos Alvarado Quesada administration, economic activity continues to be sluggish, and therefore cannot reduce unemployment. Expectations continue to play a key role, as they s...

Russian growth at a snail's pace
RUSSIA / FSU POLITICS · In Brief · 26 Jun 2019

In May 2019 growth was only 0.2% Y o Y. This is eight and a half times lower than April's annual growth. A new head of Rosstat (the Russian Statistical Agency) was appointed a few months ago to provide more accurate statistics. Unfortunately these statistics are too accurate and are acutely embar...

​Rumors and policy signals
TURKEY · In Brief · 26 Jun 2019 · 2 responses

Thanks to AKP’s habit of conducting its internal debates behind closed doors and not releasing any useful information to the public, the scuttlebutt is abuzz with rumors, only very few of which I can verify or share with you with some level of confidence. First, Mr. Erdogan has grasped that the e...

The difficulties of signalling, old and new
INDIA · Report · 25 Jun 2019

The NBFC (non-banking financial company) industry is in the midst of a stress test. Some firms such as HDFC are widely trusted by lenders, while others are not. The key puzzle for each healthy firm is about signalling to lenders that it is of high quality. Lenders have relied on three key sign...

Dewan Housing default
INDIA · In Brief · 25 Jun 2019

An important stressed firm in India today is Dewan Housing (DHFL). They are a balance sheet of about Rs.1 trillion. They seem to have stock market returns correlations with a few other important firms (Yes Bank, Indiabulls Housing), and the cluster adds up to about a Rs.5 trillion balance sheet.U...

Always tricky: central bank policy is tighter than it looks
HUNGARY · In Brief · 25 Jun 2019

Comparing today's policy statements with actual MNB activity, one might come to the conclusion that the central bank is secretly tightening its policy, in spite of its contrary talk.On the one hand, today's Monetary Council meeting, the key quarterly rate-setting event as declared by the Bank rec...

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