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The first half of the game is almost over
CHILE · Report · 23 May 2018

The Monthly Index of Economic Activity delivered some good news in March – even though its growth was strongly favored by the low comparison base in mining. And business confidence was positive for the fourth consecutive month. Industrial production continued to disappoint. Though retail sales su...

Monetary Council meeting: Laissez faire, laissez passer
HUNGARY · In Brief · 22 May 2018

Whatever central bank action the most recent depreciation of the forint vis-a-vis the euro could require, the Monetary Council did or said almost exactly nothing at today's rate-setting meeting. The Council essentially said that both its interest rates and its other tools are just all right as th...

Polls reveal a record number of undecided, blank and null votes and other weekly topics
BRAZIL POLITICS · Report · 21 May 2018

Three new polls on the presidential succession may be released tomorrow, May 22. Also on Tuesday, PT governors discuss the presidential succession with Party President Gleisi Hoffmann. Tomorrow, the MDB presents a preliminary version of the document "Encontro com o futuro" (“A Date with the Futu...

Politics: How one less candidate affects the race
MEXICO · Report · 21 May 2018

With her campaign deeply in debt and lacking any hope of attracting major funding sources, Margarita Zavala announced May 16 that she was bowing out of the presidential race and leaving her supporters to follow their conscience in deciding how to vote this summer. That decision suddenly left an e...

Economics: Data load for plans to tackle poverty
MEXICO · Report · 21 May 2018

According to Coneval’s latest evaluation of social policy, multidimensional poverty results have been decidedly mixed over the past decade. The number of people living in poverty has risen by almost 6 million in the past decade in the wake of the 2008 global financial crisis and Mexico’s 2009 rec...

Accelerating housing rental prices support higher inflation
ISRAEL · Report · 21 May 2018

Housing rental prices have accelerated and pose a threat to higher inflation. We expect inflation to reach 1.0% NTM assuming a further housing rental price increase, a slightly weaker shekel and stable energy prices. Despite the expectation that year-over-year inflation will reach 1.3% in July of...

Much ado about nothing
BRAZIL ECONOMICS · Report · 21 May 2018

Until recently the low interest rates in the United States and other mature countries – and the other side of the same coin, the low risk aversion – were causing demand for the assets of emerging countries to climb, strengthening their currencies and reducing the quotations of their CDS. However,...

How will all this end? A first stab
TURKEY · Report · 20 May 2018

Last week’s developments compelled us to share our thoughts and views on Turkey’s rapidly changing political and economic outlook. As a result, we have opted for a different format in this Weekly Trends, in the first section of which, we ventured to construct a tentative baseline scenario thro...

Being proclaimed is not the same as winning
VENEZUELA · In Brief · 18 May 2018

Elections are around the corner without a clear picture of the results to be expected on Sunday. We hold to our base case that Nicolás Maduro will be proclaimed winner. Nevertheless, his political footing will weaken as a result of doubts surrounding both the electoral outcome and his ability to ...

​Central Bank painkillers
ARGENTINA · In Brief · 18 May 2018

Over the last months, we have been pointing out in our reports about the risky monetary arithmetic the Central Bank has been implementing in its fight against inflation. In short, how it has been sterilizing significant peso emissions caused by the government's dollar debt placement to finance an...

Less EU transfers, more official optimism
HUNGARY · Report · 18 May 2018

The EU Commission’s initial budget proposal for 2021-2027, published in early May, indeed turned out to be rather unfavorable for CEE member states, including Hungary. The EU would spend substantially less on development aid and direct agricultural payments, from which CEE members draw most of th...

A turn of 180 degrees
ECUADOR · Report · 17 May 2018 · 2 responses

Richard Martinez, a young economist who has been linked to the productive sector through the Chamber of Industries and the Ecuadorian Productive Committee, is replacing Maria Elsa Viteri, who was in office only for two months. Viteri had presented the economic program for this and the next three ...

Hyperinflation worsens
VENEZUELA · Report · 17 May 2018

Our monthly inflation rate forecast for May and June 2018 is 102 percent and 110 percent. Demand for money collapses as expectations deteriorate in the face of growing political pressures and macroeconomic imbalances. Accumulated inflation in the first semester 2018 rises to 4,583 percent and the...

Forecasting Chinese commodity prices
CHINA ADVISORY · Report · 16 May 2018

Chinese commodity price index predictive factors Chinese commodity price indexes can be predicted based on several indicators from the previous months. Indexes that can be determined include China's Basic Commodity Price Index, China's Energy Price Index, and China's Steel Price Index. The pre...

Strike by construction labor union is hurting economic growth
PANAMA · In Brief · 16 May 2018

Workers of the powerful construction union (SUNTRACS) and the private sector Panamanian Chamber of Construction (CAPAC) are negotiating a four-year wage raise. After 28 days of strike, SUNTRACS recently announced that they will not accept the arbitrage procedure requested by CAPAC (and urged by P...

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