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The U.S. – Cuba Agreement
VENEZUELA · Report · 18 Dec 2014

The U.S.-Cuba agreement reconfigures hemispheric relations. It integrates Cuba to world markets and rebuilds the relationship between the U.S. and the rest of Latin America. Hemispheric relationships move closer to a relationship between peers and weaken the image of the U.S. as a colonial threat...

Inflation Accelerates To 6.5% In November
VENEZUELA · Report · 17 Dec 2014

In the absence of BCV inflation data, we continue analyzing inflation using the food basket data published by the Center for Documentation and Social Analysis of the Venezuelan Federation of Teachers (Cendas).We estimate that the month-on-month National CPI inflation rate accelerated to 6.5 perce...

The Governor Say(s)
PHILIPPINES · Report · 17 Dec 2014

Executive SummaryWe sat down with BSP Governor Amando “Say” M. Tetangco last week to hear how he is reading current developments and emergent risks and how these feed into monetary policy decisions, particularly the dilemma between financial sector stability, which may require raising interest ra...

In the Waiting Room
CHILE · Report · 17 Dec 2014

Executive Summary All signs point in the same depressing direction – or, one might argue, in no direction at all. Business confidence is stagnant, at historically low levels. The manufacturing sector is suffering from bradycardia (a condition of slow heartbeat). For the second month in a row, ...

The Impact of Russia: No Jitters but No Rate Cut Either
HUNGARY · Report · 17 Dec 2014

Facts The turmoil about the Russian currency in recent days has not left the Hungarian forint and government bonds unaffected, but so far the negative impact has been moderate on both markets. The forint fell by close to 2% vis-à-vis the euro over the past two days, and a correction of similar si...

Government Evaluation
BRAZIL POLITICS · Report · 17 Dec 2014

Amidst challenges, CNI/Ibope poll was positive for Dilma The Ibope poll contracted by CNI and conducted on December 5-8 shows that evaluations of the Dilma Rousseff (PT) government are stable. “Great/good” evaluations dropped two percentage points (40% to 38%) in the last three months, a percenta...

The Ups and Downs of 3Q
COLOMBIA · Report · 16 Dec 2014

Colombia’s GDP expanded by 4.2% in 3Q; while the economy is slowing relative to a more dynamic first half of the year, it is still in good shape vis a vis the rest of the world, and set to grow by close to 5% by the end of the year (Figure 1). The most vigorous sector continues to be construction...

Recovery of Retail Sales: Will it Prove Sustainable?
BRAZIL ECONOMICS · Report · 15 Dec 2014

The good news is that real retail sales expanded substantially in October, both in the restricted sense (+1%) and augmented sense (+1.7%), which includes cars and construction materials. October was the third straight month of elevation. With this, it is likely that the third quarter this year wi...

Upbeat Confidence Likely to Face Some Correction
SOUTH AFRICA · Forecast · 15 Dec 2014

Executive SummarySouth Africa’s economic recovery faces a steep uphill on the back of structural blockages in the energy. Sporadic electricity supply during the last quarter of 2014 will in all probability sap some of the confidence exuded by firms in recent opinion surveys. Against this backdrop...

Weekly Tracker: December 14-20
TURKEY · Report · 14 Dec 2014

Executive Summary Our core agenda remains spillover from the war on ISIS to Turkey, the Peace Processes with the Kurds -- and now the Alevites; and the upcoming Constitutional Court ruling on the 10% election hurdle. Promising that these will be adequately covered in our upcoming Monthly report, ...

Scenarios in Crisis of Justice/Security
MEXICO · Report · 11 Dec 2014

Executive SummaryAmid the dual-faceted political crisis Mexico is experiencing – an institutional crisis and a crisis of leadership and legitimacy – and under mounting pressure to produce quick results, last week the administration of President Enrique Peña Nieto cobbled together a series of disp...

A Word Worth $20 Billion
VENEZUELA · Report · 11 Dec 2014

The recent reform of the BCV Law allows the Board of the Bank to include about $20 billion in assets booked as Various Foreign Exchange Assets since July 2014. The Bank has not disclosed details on these assets. Our sources report that this account contains two structured notes written by foreign...

Revising Financial Prices Outlook
PHILIPPINES · Report · 11 Dec 2014

In our most recent outlook report (“Shifting Sands,” November 14, 2014), our baseline scenario took into consideration a 50bp BSP policy rate hike in 2H15 in step with a US Fed rate hike. The sands have since shifted, and following our conversation with the BSP Governor yesterday, we are now look...

Mixed Labor Market Outlook for Year
MEXICO · Report · 11 Dec 2014

Executive Summary In this week’s Economic Panorama we analyze what the labor market data to date can tell us about broader economic trends, and how economic activity is likely to close the current year. We also delve into some of the reasons why robust growth in payroll employment has failed to t...

Growth Disappoints, Basci Uplifts
TURKEY · Report · 10 Dec 2014

Turkish GDP came in lower than expected in the third quarter of the year -- 1.7% actual vs. 2.9% forecast, y/y – the main culprits being a large contraction in agriculture from the production side and inventory drawdown from the expenditure side. In the year through Q3, GDP thus expanded by 2.8%,...

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