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BRAZIL POLITICS · Report · 01 Dec 2016 · 1 response

​By majority vote, the Federal Supreme Court decided to accept the accusation against the president of the Senate, Renan Calheiros (PMDB-AL). This represents a tough defeat for the senator. Despite the fact that the end-of-year parliamentary recess is only three weeks away, there may be pressure ...

Trump Possible Bad News for Canal, and Exports
PANAMA · Report · 30 Nov 2016

The question every analyst asks these days is how the Trump administration might affect Panama. Though the link between the U.S. and Panamanian economies is one of the weakest in the region, a likely surge of protectionism will hit services exports, and Canal traffic. Other potential impac...

Signs of Softening and Uncertainty, While Anti-corruption Efforts Remain Muddled
MEXICO · Report · 30 Nov 2016

Economic indicators last month showed the Mexican economy largely sustained its slackened pace of recent quarters (an average 2.0% rate of growth through the first nine months of the year) as weak supply indicators contrasted with continuing strength in demand, although the latter also manifests ...

President Zuma Hangs to Power- But Only Just!
SOUTH AFRICA · In Brief · 29 Nov 2016

The ANC's National Executive Committee (NEC) decision, after a 3-day meeting held over the past three days, announced earlier today is a short term victory for Zuma! In an unexpected turn of event on Saturday three of his Cabinet Ministers tabled a “vote of no confidence” in him requesting him to...

Trump Plans Could Hit Migration and FDI
CENTRAL AMERICA · Report · 29 Nov 2016

Uncertainty over the potential impact of President-elect Donald Trump’s economic decisions is high. If Trump makes good on his campaign promises, Central America will be negatively affected on several fronts. The main areas relate to migration, remittances, trade and foreign direct investment. ...

Trump-Inspired Damage is Unlikely
DOMINICAN REPUBLIC · Forecast · 29 Nov 2016

Despite uncertainties surrounding the policies of U.S. President-elect Donald Trump, we don’t expect the effects on the Dominican economy to be dramatic, over either the short or the medium term. Expansionary fiscal policies aimed at strengthening U.S. infrastructure could boost demand and attrac...

The Country of Not Enough
COLOMBIA · Report · 29 Nov 2016 · 1 response

The end of 2016 will be characterized by not enough growth, a tax reform likely to deliver less than what is needed, monetary policy that has yet to bring inflation down, and a peace deal that may not be enough to bring peace. That is why Colombia, yet making efforts in all these fronts, seems to...

External and Internal Driven Volatility
INDONESIA · Report · 28 Nov 2016

In concert with other emerging-market countries, the Indonesian economy underwent a bit of volatility after the election of Donald Trump as the new President of the United States. However, in the Indonesian context, volatility was also influenced by internal politics after the November 4, 2016 de...

Week of November 28
BRAZIL POLITICS · Report · 28 Nov 2016 · 1 response

A busy week in Brasília: The government will face an important test in the Senate with the vote on the Federal Spending Amendment, scheduled for Tuesday, November 29. The end of re-elections is also on the voting agenda. In the Lower House, congressmen are seeking an agreement regarding the set ...

How Intense will the Monetary Easing Cycle be?
BRAZIL ECONOMICS · Report · 28 Nov 2016

To gauge the intensity of the interest rate cut, the Central Bank will observe three sets of information, regarding: a) inflation and economic activity; b) approval of fiscal adjustment measures; and c) the effects of “external shocks” that alter the trend of the exchange rate. In the past 45 day...

Political and Economic Update
TURKEY · Report · 27 Nov 2016

After a fighter jet believed to be operated by Assad’s loyalists bombed Turkish forces in Syria, the prospect of a PYD/YPG-Turkey-Assad conflict has risen substantially. Syria is now our top political risk. The European Parliament resolved to freeze Turkish accession temporarily. EU leaders a...

The Reserve Bank Ends the Year with the Repo Rate Unchanged at 7%
SOUTH AFRICA · Report · 24 Nov 2016

As we had predicted after the South African Reserve Bank’s Monetary Policy Committee’s (MPC) previous meeting, the latter has once again decided to keep the benchmark interest rate, i.e. the repo rate, at 7%; effectively leaving the prime lending rate at 10.5%. Today’s decision came despite th...

CBRT Acts, But Will It Suffice?
TURKEY · In Brief · 24 Nov 2016

The CBRT/MPC hiked the weekly-repo and O/N lending rates by 50 and 25 bps, respectively, at today’s meeting, to 8% and 8.5%, leaving the O/N borrowing rate unchanged at 7.25% (Graph 1). The move is certainly better than nothing and somewhat better than the consensus, and also shows that the Bank ...

Trump Introduces Uncertainties
CHINA · Report · 24 Nov 2016

Economic growth was relatively stable in October. Fixed asset investment was up 9% y/y, a 2 pp rise from Q3. Industrial output was up 6.1% y/y, and its growth rates have been very stable, with volatility of only around 0.3 pps. But electricity production rose 8% y/y, a record high for many years,...

Politics: How Best to Answer Donald Trump's threats
MEXICO · Report · 24 Nov 2016

The two axes –economic integration and shared security— upon which in recent decades a complex and profound relationship of collaboration and trust between Mexico and the United States was built is about to be upended and potentially demolished by the aggressive measures president elect Donald T...

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