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Political Insights: Week of August 11
BRAZIL POLITICS · Report · 11 Aug 2014

This will be a busy week because of the elections.The presidential candidates will be interviewed by TV Globo’s Jornal Nacional, the highest rated news show in the country.A Sensus poll on the presidential race may be released on Friday.There will also be new polls on the presidential race and gu...

​Erdogan Years, Day One: Weak mandate for strong presidency
TURKEY · In Brief · 10 Aug 2014

Good morning and Welcome to “Erdogan Years” in Turkey. I’m posting my initial thoughts at 6:00 am Turkey time so that our Asian and West European readers have some analysis to work with. The agenda of the coming days will be set by today’s central committee meetings, after which I will pen a more...

Two Opposite Pictures: Asset Prices and the Real Economy
BRAZIL ECONOMICS · Report · 08 Aug 2014

Executive Summary In the midst of economic performance that can be characterized as stagflation, asset prices have recently been appreciating. The Ibovespa has risen more than the stock market indexes of other emerging markets, and has far outpaced the S&P-500 in recent weeks. Simultaneously, ...

Brazil Presidential Election
BRAZIL POLITICS · Report · 08 Aug 2014

Ibope Reveals Stability The second Ibope poll on the presidential race since the candidacies were made official presents a scenario of stability.President Dilma Rousseff (PT) preserved her intended votes from the previous poll, while senator Aécio Neves (PSDB-MG) and former governor Eduardo Campo...

Foreign Policy Coming Home
RUSSIA / FSU POLITICS · Report · 08 Aug 2014

An official statement that defending compatriots abroad will be a defining trait of Russia’s foreign policy leaves the country in an uneasy position in its relations with the neighbors where large parts of the population (or even the whole population depending on the definition) can be viewed as ...

The Limits of Financial Reform
MEXICO · Report · 06 Aug 2014

Executive Summary The congressionally mandated report from the Federal Economic Competition Commission (Cofece) on the state of competition in the financial sector lacked the teeth of the telecommunications regulator’s equivalent report earlier this year, which among its main decisions designated...

What Follows the Reform Agenda
MEXICO · Report · 06 Aug 2014

Executive Summary Now that the question of energy reform has largely been settled, most of the Pact for Mexico structural reform agenda has been signed into law with and political attention will turn for the next ten months to three main policy areas before everything becomes subsumed in the midt...

Hail To The President
TURKEY · Report · 06 Aug 2014

Executive SummaryErdogan is almost certain the win the presidential election in the first round on Sunday. We start by providing an overview of the policies to be pursued in the Erdogan Era. We are not optimistic that AKP will revert to a more pragmatic policy path in social matters or the econom...

A Bend in the Road
PHILIPPINES · Forecast · 06 Aug 2014

Executive SummaryAt a time of slowing growth, rising inflation and visible signs of infrastructure constraints, an adjudged bend in the administration’s Daang Matuwid has left the President not only with reduced degrees of freedom to invigorate the economy but also dented his corruption-fighting ...

This is in reply to a question by one of our readers
TURKEY · In Brief · 06 Aug 2014

I thought the question is the minds of many and my answer may shed light on two important issues: Q: what is the likelihood of an early parliamentary election? should we expect that if Erdogan does well in the presidential and he does not announce an early parliamentary, we will see lower pressur...

Energy Reform
MEXICO · Report · 05 Aug 2014

Executive Summary A series of reforms to the Mexican Constitution regarding the energy sector appeared in the December 20, 2013 issue of the Diario Oficial de la Federación, the federal government’s daily gazette, and took effect on December 21, 2013. They legally codified changes to articles 25,...

Houston, We Have a Problem
TURKEY · Report · 04 Aug 2014

Consumer price inflation in July surprised on the upside coming in at 0.45%, versus consensus expectation of a modest drop of 0.1%.This has pushed the 12-month rate slightly higher to 9.3%, from 9.2% in June. Producer price inflation eased somewhat to 9.5%, probably largely owing to a more stable...

Conflicting Debt Target and Policies
HUNGARY · Report · 04 Aug 2014

Executive Summary This month, our focus is on the recent official measures on the budget, central bank interest rates and FX debt. A similarly important story is the continuation of the domestic banking saga, including compensations payable by banks to borrowers, the planned conversion of the FX ...

Political Insights: Week of August 4
BRAZIL POLITICS · Report · 04 Aug 2014

This week there will be a concentrated effort in Congress, with important bills on the agenda.The accusations made by Veja magazine that Petrobras CPI questions were previously sent to participants should dominate the debates with the return of legislative activity.Presidential candidates partici...

Fragmentation will Help the PRI
MEXICO · Report · 04 Aug 2014

Executive Summary July indicators point to a further firming of the economy, along with evidence that an expansive fiscal policy has yet to produce its desired effects.Employment and real wages have risen steadily since January 1st, and it appears that GDP growth accelerated an estimated 2.1% in ...

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