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Liquid reserves boosted by SDRs
VENEZUELA · In Brief · 10 Jun 2015 · 2 responses

Blanca Vera reported today in El Nacional Web that BCV drew $1.5 billion from the IMF in recent days. This news would confirm our hypothesis that BCV sought funds to shore up foreign reserves ahead of the $798 million decline on June 3. Otherwise, liquid reserves would have fallen to $10 million....

Economics: Cost-push and further peso spike
MEXICO · Report · 10 Jun 2015

Executive Summary The depreciation and volatility that the Mexican peso has experienced in relation to the dollar since late last year is something that one would be ill-advised to try to minimize. As is widely known, much of the peso's recent depreciation (and volatility) is explained not only b...

Growth: Good Headline, Poor Dynamics
TURKEY · Report · 10 Jun 2015

GDP growth came in at 2.3%, y/y, in the first quarter of the year, better than both the consensus (1.6%, CNBC-e) and our even weaker (1%-1.5%) forecasts. But this hardly changes the fact that the underlying growth dynamics or momentum remains weak. It looks like private consumption drove growth i...

Monetary Policy Where It Belongs
PHILIPPINES · Report · 09 Jun 2015

Executive SummaryThe BSP has been telling markets that it will be moving into an interest rate corridor approach in implementing monetary policy. The plan, expected to be in place by early next year, will involve first putting in place a new deposit auction system to augment existing liquidity ma...

Politics: First Analyses of the Electoral Results
MEXICO · Report · 09 Jun 2015

Executive summaryThere were no changes in the relative weights of the three main parties in Congress. However, the amount of votes they gathered has diminished constantly and importantly. The coalition PRI-Green party will not have a majority in the Chamber of Deputies: based on available data, t...

Continuing With the Adjustment Despite the Costs
BRAZIL ECONOMICS · Report · 08 Jun 2015

Executive Summary There's no way to escape from the costs of the fiscal adjustment under way in Brazil. Besides sharp declines in industrial production and fixed capital investments, to name just two components of GDP, the unemployment rate is trending upward and real wages downward. The reces...

Week of June 8
BRAZIL POLITICS · Report · 08 Jun 2015

Several important events are scheduled for this week. There are expectations regarding the infrastructure package, which will be announced by President Dilma Rousseff on Tuesday, June 9. The House resumes the debate on political reform and discusses payroll tax exemptions. The PT holds its party ...

The National Assembly voted YES on a Constitutional ammendment to allow re-election. A second and definitive vote will be on Friday
DOMINICAN REPUBLIC · In Brief · 08 Jun 2015

On Saturday, the National Assembly voted YES on the proposal to amend the Constitution in order to allow a current President to run for re-election. The proposal passed with 183 votes out of 222. The assembly will meet again on Friday for a second and definitive vote. If finally approved, the ame...

General Elections: Turkey enters the era of political instability
TURKEY · In Brief · 08 Jun 2015 · 4 responses

General Elections: Turkey enters the era of political instability General elections shed light on several questions that vexed experts’ minds, but immediately kindled new ones which are proving to be intractable. My current guess is that it will be very difficult to form a coalition of any kind, ...

Monetary Tightening and Recession: What Does the Central Bank Want?
BRAZIL ECONOMICS · Report · 08 Jun 2015

At its last meeting, the COPOM decided to raise the SELIC rate by 50 basis points, to 13.75% a year. This decision was widely expected by the market, so it caused no surprise. But there was also an expectation of a change in the tone of the communiqué, indicating that the end of the tightening cy...

Start of the Big Game
RUSSIA / FSU POLITICS · Report · 08 Jun 2015

With the last regional elections ahead of the national parliamentary elections taking place in September 2015, a 2016 campaign is almost underway. A changed voting system, a five-year gap after the last Duma election and other factors make next year's election a decisive moment requiring great ef...

First cut on the Mexican mid-term elections
MEXICO · In Brief · 08 Jun 2015

The government seems to have won the midterm referendum. The Electoral Institute did a good job in organising the elections, amid problems in Guerrero and Oaxaca In the races for nine governor mansions, the three main parties seem to win something. The recent figure of an "independent candidate" ...

What happened on June 3?
VENEZUELA · In Brief · 07 Jun 2015

BCV's international reserves fell by $798 million on Wednesday, June 3. This sizeable decline left the markets at a loss. We were puzzled because, according to our daily calculations, the Bank’s cash holdings in FX would have dropped to a $10 million record low that day. On June 4, reserves rose ...

​First Update: Voters reject Erdogan at the ballot
TURKEY · In Brief · 07 Jun 2015

I expected a close election, but that wasn’t it. AKP won an easy victory, but according to preliminary unofficial results fell roughly 20 seats short of the majority to form a single part government. Pro-Kurdish rights party HDP easily catapulted over the 10% qualifying hurdle, while CHP and to a...

A technical flaw in constructing the GDP deflator might be good news (sort of)
CHINA FINANCIAL · In Brief · 05 Jun 2015 · 2 responses

I've long argued that a non-disruptive adjustment would require that China's annual GDP growth decelerate by a minimum of 100-150 bps during the rebalancing period (which probably began in 2012). Reported GDP growth was 9.3% in 2011. In 2015-Q1 it had dropped to 7.0% year on year -- a sclerotic 2...

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