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Governor Basci as dovish as ever...
TURKEY · In Brief · 24 Jul 2014

Governor Basci presented the third Inflation Report of the year today in Ankara. The yearend inflation estimate (midpoint of a 70% band) was kept at 7.6%, as we expected, while the Bank – as it always does but never gets it right – see inflation decelerating to 5% by the end of 2015. A most notab...

President, Legislator, Judge - And Now Banker
ECUADOR · Report · 24 Jul 2014

Executive Summary The long-awaited free trade agreement with the European Union materialized last week, after Minister of External Commerce Francisco Ribadeneira successfully concluded the last round of negotiations in Europe.Though the deal could take 18 months to come into force, it looks certa...

Making Good on Telco Reform
MEXICO · Report · 23 Jul 2014

Executive Summary A Law on Telecommunications and Broadcasting and another on the Mexican State’s Public Broadcasting System were recently passed during a special session of the Mexican Congress, and President Enrique Peña Nieto signed both into law on July 14. With the enactment of these seconda...

Presidential Election
BRAZIL POLITICS · Report · 23 Jul 2014

Ibope Presents A Stable Scenario And A Dilma Victory In The Second Round The most recent Ibope poll (July 18-21) on the presidential race and evaluations of the government presented the following information: 1) we still do not know if there will be a second round; 2) unlike the scenarios present...

Presidential Election: Dramatic Ending on The Election.
INDONESIA · In Brief · 22 Jul 2014

The Indonesian Presidential Election was finally completed with the election of Joko (Jokowi) Widodo and Jusuf Kalla as President and Vice President Elect of 2014 – 2019. That decision was announced by the Indonesian Election Commission on the July 22, 2014 evening in Jakarta. Jokowi – JK, as the...

Final Leg of Energy Reform Debate
MEXICO · Report · 22 Jul 2014

Executive Summary The long road to approving secondary laws related to the energy sector has now entered its final stretch. But given that of all the Pact for Mexico structural reforms this is by far the one most crucial to the future of the economy, and the one on which the administration of Pre...

New Evidence of Decelerating Economic Activity
BRAZIL ECONOMICS · Report · 21 Jul 2014

The proxy for GDP computed by the Central Bank (IBC-Br) brought more evidence that Brazil’s economic growth is decelerating. With the decline of 0.2% in May, the carry over to the second quarter is -0.1%, and in light of all the signs of further weakening in June, the most probable outcome is tha...

Political Insights: Week of July 21
BRAZIL POLITICS · Report · 21 Jul 2014

With the Congressional recess and the end of the World Cup and BRICS Summit, the presidential race will be the focus of the agenda.A new Ibope poll is eagerly expected, since Datafolha and Sensus show a technical tie between Dilma Roussef (PT) and Aécio Neves (PSDB) in an eventual second round. D...

Bounded Power and Modest Reforms
VENEZUELA · Forecast · 21 Jul 2014

Executive Summary This report extends our forecast horizon to 2016. Our previous outlook expected Maduro’s administration to carry out limited actions and reforms in 2014 that would help the economy begin to recover from stagflation some time in 2015. Instead, government inaction and poor executi...

Army takes decisive advance on terrorists
UKRAINE · In Brief · 20 Jul 2014

Over the last few days Ukrainian army is making strong advance on separatists. From messages we have the picture is not complete but we know that the army has finally encircled the territory and broken separatists into three group. Two of them (near Donetsk and near Lysychansk) seem to be totally...

Weekly Tracker: July 20-26
TURKEY · Report · 20 Jul 2014

Executive Summary There is not much new to report on the Turkish presidential election campaign. PM Erdogan leads in the polls, though the opposition suspects foul play. Experts now think a convincing victory by AKP could trigger early elections before next year. In the meantime, Gul may be seeki...

Presidential Election
BRAZIL POLITICS · Report · 18 Jul 2014

Datafolha: Worrisome News for Dilma The Datafolha Institute released a new presidential voting intention and government evaluation poll, conducted July 15-16.The poll presents worrisome information for President Dilma Rousseff (PT): 1) The probability of a second round is still high; 2) Dilma is ...

Tax Reform, Take Two
CHILE · Report · 18 Jul 2014

Executive Summary Several months of opposition and discussion to President Bachelet’s proposed tax reform has resulted in a compromise deal between government and opposition. The main issue had to do with the taxation of income from capital. Chile today has a system of full integration betw...

Chilling Effect
PHILIPPINES · Report · 17 Jul 2014

It was the first question we asked Budget Secretary Florencio Abad last December[1] and it worries us now to hear President Benigno Aquino talk about the "chilling effect" of the Supreme Court decision declaring the executive's Disbursement Acceleration Program (DAP) unconstitutional.In fact the ...

Expected Action, Weak Narrative
TURKEY · Report · 17 Jul 2014

As expected, the Monetary Policy Committee cut its key reference rate (one-week repo) today by 50 bps to 8.25%, but left its O/N lending rate intact at 12%.As well, in what we interpret as being largely a technical move – because the reference rate would be otherwise almost equal to the O/N borro...

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