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Very weak economic activity at the start of 2019
BRAZIL ECONOMICS · Report · 18 Mar 2019

After growing only 0.1% in the fourth quarter of 2018, or 1.1% in the year average (the same as in 2017), the economy has still not shown any signs of improvement this year. None of the numbers disclosed up through last week (industrial production, real retail sales and real revenues from service...

Accelerating rental prices resulted in higher-than-expected CPI
ISRAEL · Report · 18 Mar 2019

February's CPI (0.1% m/m, 1.2% y/y) surprised on the upside due to accelerating housing rental prices. Our inflation forecast for the NTM remains at the low end of the target (1.0%), on shekel strength and softening labor market pressures, offset in part by higher taxation. We still do not envisi...

Ukrainian election - Zelenskiy pulls further ahead
RUSSIA / FSU POLITICS · In Brief · 18 Mar 2019

A polling company called SOCIS has found that Zelenskiy has almost 28% of voters committed to him. This is significant because this poll is only about people who said they are certain that they will vote. Zelenskiy's problem is that many of his supporters are first time voters - a demographic tha...

Western tensions, fiscal excesses
TURKEY · Report · 17 Mar 2019

Both the US and EU served notice that Turkey must change its ways to continue its membership in the Western alliance. The US threatens new sanctions if S-400s are purchased and aid to Maduro endures. The EU made it clear that Turkey should expect neither visa waivers nor negotiations on a new Cus...

​Monetae Pax II
ARGENTINA · In Brief · 15 Mar 2019

Although not genuinely unsurprising, February inflation data was still disappointing. The 3.8%m/m brought the annual rate to 51%y/y, accumulating 6.8% in the first two months of the year. As in January, the chief diver was not only utilities but also food. Moreover, once more a key component of t...

Going with the Flow
CHILE · Report · 15 Mar 2019

Economic activity in 2018 ended on a rather negative note. Activity re-accelerated in Q4, especially in non-mining, though growth velocity was well below that of H1. In January 2019, the Monthly Index of Economic Activity was hurt by very unusual and heavy rains in the Atacama Desert, supposedly ...

It is high time to change the course of MNB policy
HUNGARY · Report · 15 Mar 2019

The uptrend of consumer inflation continued at an accelerated pace in February. CPI-inflation now exceeds the MNB’s medium-term target by all existing measures, including core inflation adjusted for indirect tax changes, the central bank’s favorite index. Importantly, inflation rose in the face o...

How to think about Chinese medium-term growth prospects
CHINA FINANCIAL · Report · 15 Mar 2019

Special points to highlight in this issue: • China’s two national political sessions last week set off a largely expected series of announcements and a huge amount of analysis, with nothing fundamentally changing. Beijing still faces the same constraints and the same set of adjustment scenarios....

Private credit for state ends
CHINA ADVISORY · Report · 15 Mar 2019

China is quietly privatizing much of its debt due to an increasing shortage of domestic capital. This will have several outcomes: * A rise in off-balance sheet financing. * An increasing division between state firms that obtain state capital and local infrastructure and private companie...

High speed rail to Nizhny Novgorod needs finance
RUSSIA / FSU POLITICS · In Brief · 15 Mar 2019

Prime Minister Medvedev ok'd the first part of the enlarged Moscow-Nizhny Novgorod high speed rail line. President Putin will have the final say though. This rail line is unlikely to make a profit. It will cost USD 9.5 billion. Only USD 3 billion dollars will come from Russian Railroads and the f...

Most CCJ members support the government
BRAZIL POLITICS · Report · 14 Mar 2019

​The Constitution and Justice Committee of the Lower House was installed on Wednesday, March 13, and has 66 members and an equal number of alternates. It will be responsible for analyzing the constitutionality of the Pension Reform proposal. This is the first stage of proceedings in the Lower Hou...

Growth target downgraded
PHILIPPINES · In Brief · 14 Mar 2019

Yesterday, economic managers downgraded their GDP growth target for 2019 from 7-8% to 6-7%, blaming the continuing delay in the passage of the national budget. The budget, which was supposed to have been transmitted for the President’s signature early this month, hit an unexpected snag when the S...

Russian-Venezuelan bank under sanctions
RUSSIA / FSU POLITICS · In Brief · 13 Mar 2019

On March 11 the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) sanctioned Evrofinance Mosnarbank for its “assistance” to PDVSA and to the Maduro regime. However, the only example cited in the press release refers to the oil-backed cryptocurrency Petro. According to the ...

Election fever, with Zelenskiy ahead; Hryvnia strong
UKRAINE · Report · 13 Mar 2019 · 1 response

Election madness reigns in Ukraine, with nearly every day bringing a new shocking headline. The Constitutional Court has dropped the “illicit enrichment” provision; a defense procurements scandal has blown up; a decree raising natural gas rates has been rescinded -- and more. Against this wild...

The government is proposing to make household bonds free of the income tax
HUNGARY · In Brief · 13 Mar 2019

The finance minister yesterday handed in a proposal to the National Assembly, according to which the interest earned from household bonds, the special kind of government debt that is only available to domestic individuals, would be free of the flat 15% income tax, as regards any new series of suc...

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