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KAZAKHSTAN · In Brief · 05 Mar 2025

Feb 19 KMG: The company and Hungarian MOL group (Multinational Oil and Gas) will discuss further details and conditions of testing supplies of Kazakh oil to Hungary. Ministry of Foreign Affairs: Kazakh diplomats will discuss the attack on CPC with Ukraine. National railways: China will invest CNY...

Israel's wage growth slows to 2% in January, easing inflation concerns
ISRAEL · In Brief · 04 Mar 2025

In January 2025, wage growth in Israel slowed to a year-over-year increase of 2.0%, following an increase of 4.5% in December and a modest 0.9% increase in November. This marks a decline compared to the average 5.5% increase in April-October 2024 (see the chart below). We attributed the slowdown ...

South Africa’s economy posts modest 0.6% growth—both quarterly and annually
SOUTH AFRICA · Report · 04 Mar 2025

Real GDP figures released by Statistics South Africa (Stats SA) indicate that South Africa’s economy expanded by 0.6% q/q in the final quarter of 2024, following a contraction of 0.1% q/q during the third quarter. The positive growth in fourth quarter real GDP came largely on the back of the rebo...

Ahead of a special European Council meeting on March 6; where does Hungary stand?
HUNGARY · In Brief · 04 Mar 2025

Amidst the political whirlwind of recent days, created and actively fuelled by the US president around Ukraine/Russia/Europe and a potentially destructive trade war due to his new penalty-level tariffs on various items in various directions, it may be useful to establish where Hungary's governmen...

China’s “DeepSeek” tech rebound
CHINA ADVISORY · Report · 04 Mar 2025

The success of DeepSeek along with Xi Jinping’s meeting with technology firms has caused a rally in Chinese tech stocks. DeepSeek’s ability to create a sophisticated AI engine with minimal chip hardware has been taken as sign of China’s ability to improve on western technology at a much lower pri...

Kazakhstan macro: gradually increasing trade with Europe to remain an important GDP driver
KAZAKHSTAN · Report · 03 Mar 2025

A few weeks ago, we briefly broached the evolution of the 2024 aggregate structure of Kazakhstan's balance of payments and some issues related to the recent volatility of the tenge. In this report, we concentrate on some details of foreign trade statistics that provide additional color on economi...

Economics: February indicators reveal further slowing of economic activity on a mix of domestic factors and external threats
MEXICO · Report · 03 Mar 2025 · 2 responses

This week’s review of the news of the past month provides plenty of evidence of a further slowing of economic growth. Industrial activity contracted in December, and GDP growth sputtered to only half a percentage point in the fourth quarter, with services the only sector with relative growth that...

Inflation accelerates, base rate hike is likely in March
KAZAKHSTAN · In Brief · 03 Mar 2025

The Bureau of National Statistics reported that in February, inflation m-o-m accelerated to 1.5% (versus 1.1% m-o-m in January). The y-o-y tally climbed to 9.4% (versus 8.9% in January). Prices rose across the board – for services, food, or non-food items. The latter implies that the main reason ...

An encouraging print in the long disinflation journey
TURKEY · Report · 03 Mar 2025

Consumer prices rose by a markedly lower than expected 2.3%, m/m, versus market consensus of 3% (February 2024: 4.5%). Our miss primarily stemmed from a better performance in food, and to a lesser extent textile and health sub-categories. The 12-month CPI inflation thus fell further to 39.1% -- a...

Politics: Amid a delicate balancing act, Sheinbaum moves against drug cartel kingpins
MEXICO · Report · 03 Mar 2025

Claudia Sheinbaum’s administration is confronting the thorny problem of drug trafficking on different fronts, in all cases with pressure from Donald Trump inevitably and constantly looming in the background. Domestically, the request by drug trafficker Mayo Zambada, illegally kidnapped from Mexic...

Oval Office showdown: no peace deal in sight, Ukraine fights on amid tough road ahead
UKRAINE · In Brief · 02 Mar 2025

I expected Trump’s peace initiative to fail at some stage, but the way it unfolded in the Oval Office was particularly harsh. It took me some time to gather my thoughts and form a vision of how things might develop from here. So, firstly, what happened? Donald Trump ran into serious trouble fulfi...

Peace hopes and rate cuts
TURKEY · Report · 02 Mar 2025

PKK’s honorary leader Ocalan finally issued a call for PKK’s disarmament and self-abolition, which covers Syrian Kurds, too. While PKK’s immediate declaration of ceasefire is an encouraging response in terms pushing the process forward, “getting there” -- whether the end game is satisfying Kurdis...

Cabinet outrage ignores realpolitik
COLOMBIA · Report · 28 Feb 2025 · 1 response

The government, as is its custom on every subject, has been quick to celebrate on social media (and everywhere possible) the great 2024 labor market results. Officials say these show that economic recovery is fully underway; that the right is peddling a false tale that the economy is ailing; and ...

Ministerial reform strengthens inner circle but fails to address a major challenge
BRAZIL POLITICS · Report · 28 Feb 2025

President Lula’s (PT) ministerial reform has begun with risky moves. The Minister of Health, Nísia Trindade, has been replaced by the Minister of Institutional Relations, Alexandre Padilha (PT), confirming Trindade’s political sidelining. On the same day she was replaced, Trindade participated in...

Essential CIS Politics: March 2025
RUSSIA / FSU POLITICS · Report · 28 Feb 2025

- America and Russia negotiate: Ukraine and the EU not invited. - America and Europe bid for rights to Ukrainian minerals. - America and Russia compete for multi-billion dollar Indian fighter jet contract. - Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan sign historic final border deal.

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