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​The Gulf response to the coup is critical to Sudan’s future
GULF COUNTRIES · Report · 27 Oct 2021

General Burhan likely assumed he could count on the Gulf support when he staged a military coup this week. However, the response from Gulf countries has been ambivalent, and the US is urging them to press Sudan for a return to the civilian-led transitional government. A year ago, Saudi Arabia an...

The vote on the court-ordered payments PEC was postponed to today, the Senate CAE holds a public hearing on the income tax bill, and Rodrigo Pacheco formally joins the PSD today
BRAZIL POLITICS · Report · 27 Oct 2021

Despite the procedural rules prohibiting edits to the PEC, Lower House President Arthur Lira said edits would be allowed during the vote in the plenary of the House. The trend is for approval. There is still no deadline for the rapporteur, Senator Angelo Coronel, to submit his report on the incom...

Russia seeks the lifting of sanctions for the sake of climate change
RUSSIA / FSU POLITICS · In Brief · 27 Oct 2021

On October 22 the Russian government said that at COP26 summit in Glasgow, UK it will ask for sanctions to be terminated. If Russia is to meet the targets on carbon emission reduction this needs to happen. The UN is asking Gazprom to stop methane leaks. However, sanctions on Gazprom make this dif...

Uzbekistan: president wins an election condemned for fraud
RUSSIA / FSU POLITICS · In Brief · 26 Oct 2021

On October 24 Shavkat Mirziyoyev was re-elected to his second 5-year term. He won 80% of the vote. The remaining 20% was divided between several candidates who are virtual unknowns and garnered minimal media attention. The second placed candidate was a woman who won 70%. A woman president is unth...

OFZ: The yield curve has become inverted – the first time since 2017
RUSSIA ECONOMICS · In Brief · 26 Oct 2021 · 1 response

Friday’s CBR decision to hike the key rate by 75 bps (to 7.5%), accompanied by a hawkish statement from the regulator, became a negative surprise for the bond market. Despite the acceleration of inflation, which reached 7.8% as of October 20, the market was expecting a more moderate action, but t...

Economics: Rising inflation and wage expectations could complicate the 2022 outlook
MEXICO · Report · 26 Oct 2021

The average contract wages of formal sector workers experienced significant gains in the past three years that stand in contrast to the largely flat trajectory of hourly income during the previous ten years. However, those increases have not coincided with improvements to labor productivity nor e...

The De Facto End of the Spending Cap and the Central Bank’s Reaction
BRAZIL ECONOMICS · Report · 26 Oct 2021

Last week, the spending cap rule ended. The increase of the Bolsa Família program and other transfers to the needy is only part of the spending increase, whose real objective is to increase the president’s popularity and satisfy his congressional base. As could not otherwise have occurred, the ri...

Reports show the government is looking into privatizing Petrobras, concerns increase about a possible trucker driver strike on November 1 and the House begins analysis of the court-ordered payments PEC
BRAZIL POLITICS · Report · 26 Oct 2021

Guedes is in favor of selling Petrobras, however, passing a bill of this nature would be very difficult right now – there are only nine weeks left until the parliamentary recess. The opposition is participating in the truck driver meetings, therefore, it is demanding more attention from the gover...

Politics: The fate of the latest energy reform bill hinges on how PRI lawmakers line up
MEXICO · Report · 25 Oct 2021

Mexico has been drawn into a debate over what type of electric power system the country needs, and clearly there is some room for improvement. But there appears to be a serious risk that opponents of President López Obrador’s efforts to establish strict state control over the electric power secto...

Income Tax Reform may be archived and other weekly topics
BRAZIL POLITICS · Report · 25 Oct 2021

A hectic week in Brasilia: the House will try to vote on the court-ordered payments PEC in order to make room for the Auxílio Brasil program in the budget, and in the Senate, the focus is on the vote on the final report of the Pandemic CPI. The TSE will judge a case that calls for the cancellatio...

Slower third-quarter growth tells us about next year
CHINA FINANCIAL · Report · 25 Oct 2021

Special points to highlight in this issue: * Chinese third quarter growth came in well below market expectations, but these expectations had always been unrealistically high. The latest data show just how important it is to understand the various components of Chinese growth and the inverse re...

Moldova: state emergency as gas runs out
RUSSIA / FSU POLITICS · In Brief · 25 Oct 2021

On October 22 the country was driven to this decision because it does not have enough gas from its usual supplier: Russia. Russia has raised prices. Moldova is seeking affordable gas from the EU. Gazprom raised prices from USD 550 per thousand cubic meters in September 2021 to USD 790 in October ...

Essential CIS Politics: October 2021
RUSSIA / FSU POLITICS · Report · 25 Oct 2021

* Inflation and income stagnation continue to dog Russia despite there being some economic growth. * Nord Stream 2 has been completed and is being tested. * Azerbaijan held military drills with Turkey. This is to deter Iran as much as Armenia. * Uzbekistan is in dialogue with the Ta...

Guedes defends the change in the spending ceiling, the CAE holds a public hearing to discuss the Income Tax Reform proposal, and the Pandemic CPI votes on the final report tomorrow
BRAZIL POLITICS · Report · 25 Oct 2021

Guedes also called for Senate President Rodrigo Pacheco to make progress with the reform proposals. Despite the poor timing, Guede's statements should not interfere with the vote on the court-ordered payments PEC in the House. In the Pandemic CPI, Senator Calheiros recommends the indictment of 66...

Cancellation of non-tradeable bonds likely to be positive for the long end of the curve
ISRAEL · Report · 25 Oct 2021

The Finance Committee of the Knesset approved the cancellation of non-tradeable government bonds as of July 2022, paving the way for Knesset approval by November 10, 2021. We view this reform as significant, expected to increase depth and liquidity in the bond market, and possibly supportive of t...

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