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RRR cut
PHILIPPINES · In Brief · 16 Feb 2018

On the eve of the lunar new year, the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas cut banks’ reserve requirement ratio from 20% to 19%, releasing about P90 billion into the financial system. The move was a surprising one coming on the heels of a higher than expected January inflation rate and at a time when mark...

Synthesis of the Brazilian economy
BRAZIL ECONOMICS · Report · 15 Feb 2018 · 1 response

The unanimous confirmation of Lula’s conviction by the TRF-4 court, with increase of his prison sentence, has made the probability of his appearance on the ballot in October remote. This development has focused attention on the center of the political spectrum, and negotiations are ongoing to for...

Q4 GDP growth above expectation, points to a (somewhat) weaker forint
HUNGARY · In Brief · 14 Feb 2018

GDP growth for Q4 2018 came out this morning at 1.3% qoq, 4.8% yoy on sda basis, the latter up from an upwardly revised 4.2% yoy in the previous quarter. This was clearly above expectation (market: 4.1% yoy, our forecast: 4.4% yoy), a great part of the positive surprise coming from the revision o...

Zuma's era ends in 24 hours!
SOUTH AFRICA · In Brief · 14 Feb 2018

At last, Zuma's missteps, tactics and strategies check-mated him. He has been put in a no-win binnary position:"resign before mid-night, or tomorrow at 14h00 the Parliament will remove you via a vote of no confidence supported by the combined ANC, EFF and all other opposition parties." To reach t...

Foreign exchange potpourri
VENEZUELA · Report · 13 Feb 2018

The government and the central bank returned to the forex scene with Exchange Agreement 39[1] after a six-month hiatus. The official explanation of the pause is that the sanctions imposed by the United States made fund transfers impossible. The changes make up a medley of advances and setbacks...

A Sirius year
PHILIPPINES · Forecast · 13 Feb 2018

Macroeconomic prospects look bright in the Year of the Dog with global growth returning to around 4% in 2018. Philippine GDP growth is expected to remain among the fastest, at 6.8% this year. Apart from rising world demand, domestic activity will gain from higher household spending and public c...

Colombian elections: Opinion versus machinery
COLOMBIA · Report · 13 Feb 2018

From 2019 onwards, every high school graduate would have free college education in public universities, at a yearly cost of 14 trillion COP, approximately 1.5% of GDP, to be financed by reducing other less important public investments, such as the 4G road system. By constitutional mandate, the ju...

Zuma Defiant, snubbing the ANC's NEC
SOUTH AFRICA · In Brief · 13 Feb 2018

Last night at the hour of midnight, the ANC President, Cyril Ramaphosa and the ANC Secretary General, Ace Magashule, were instructed by the ANC's NEC to deliver a personal message to President Zuma: resign or face the ANC NEC's recall. Zuma sent them back with a sharp and short message of defianc...

MNB-friendly inflation data out for January
HUNGARY · In Brief · 13 Feb 2018

CPI-inflation was 0.3% mom, 2.1% yoy in January, as released by the KSH this morning. The yoy rate was unchanged from December. Fuel prices rose by 1.5% mom, meaning that non-fuel inflation was 0.2% mom, the same as in January 2017, and 2.4% yoy, the latter also unchanged from December.Core infla...

Economics: Public finance bodes ill for 2018
MEXICO · Report · 12 Feb 2018

Last week's preliminary report on public finance for the end of 2017 may have shown a long awaited drop in spending, but that was mainly a statistical distortion resulting from the failures of past years to bring it under control. There is very little room to expand revenues, rein in spending and...

Politics: Did Corral outmaneuver the Peña gov't?
MEXICO · Report · 12 Feb 2018

A little over a week ago the curtain fell on the political stand-off that had pitted the Chihuahua state and the federal governments against one another in recent months. At a joint February 3 press conference, Chihuahua Governor Javier Corral and federal Minister of the Interior Alfonso Navarret...

Zuma's defining moment today
SOUTH AFRICA · In Brief · 12 Feb 2018

Today, the fate of President Zuma is to be "finalised" at the emergency meeting of ANC's National Executive Committee (NEC)- which is the highest decision-making body of the Party. Last week, all indications were that ANC President, Cyril Ramaphosa, was making good progress in reaching an amicabl...

Political and economic update
TURKEY · Report · 11 Feb 2018

As Turkey and its allied militia slowly but surely advanced into Kurdish-held Syrian canton of Afrin, President Erdogan unveiled an ambitious plan to resettle Syrian refugees along the border, which reinforces our view that Turkey intends to stay in Syria for the long haul. The plan is clever, bu...

No choice election
RUSSIA / FSU POLITICS · Report · 09 Feb 2018

Russia’s leadership was surprised to see the list of people associated with the Kremlin that was prepared for the US Congress at the end of January because of the lack of depth and detail of the list. However, there is a dominating expectation that more sanctions will eventually follow, and the c...

The government can still reverse the boomerang effect on expectations of the new inflation target
ARGENTINA · Report · 07 Feb 2018

Heightened uncertainty about monetary policy after the change in the inflation target has increased expected inflation for 2018; however, the government can still reverse the undesired effect of this new inflation target (15% per year), announced on December 28. The President of the Central Ba...

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