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Volatility and slowdown, as Piñera’s honeymoon ends
CHILE · Report · 17 Jan 2019

Economic activity varied greatly from half to half in 2018, with H1 growth running at 5%, and signs of recovery in machinery and investment. But H2 saw deceleration, with activity and consumption growth slowing in Q3.Today the economy seems to be growing at 3%, and we expect 2018 GDP growth to co...

Russia plans to slash business regulations
RUSSIA / FSU POLITICS · In Brief · 17 Jan 2019

On 15 January Prime Minister Medvedev announced that the government will probably introduce a regulatory guillotine in Russia. In the next two years outdated business regulations will be repealed. Regulations found to be unnecessary will be scrapped and business is elated. Overregulation stymies ...

Business cycle conditions, Oct-Dec 2018
INDIA · Report · 17 Jan 2019

The best measure of business cycle conditions in India is the coincident indicator, which is a linear combination of well-measured underlying indicators. The coincident indicator deteriorated slightly in Oct-Dec 2018, to +2.68% above trend. The leading indicator gives us a sense of how the co...

Mexico conference call: Mexico's economic outlook: Pragmatism or promises?
MEXICO · Report · 16 Jan 2019

Replay our Mexico conference call, "Economic outlook: Pragmatism or promises?​" featuring our Mexico City-based Country Analyst Mauricio Gonzalez. Can the recently-passed 2019 Budget deliver fiscal results consistent with public sector debt stability? How will AMLO's policies and outlook impact t...

Important policy statement from the MNB
HUNGARY · In Brief · 16 Jan 2019

Speaking at the Euromoney conference in Vienna, MNB vice governor Nagy said that in case their 'core inflation adjusted for the impact of changes in indirect taxes' indicator reaches or exceeds 3% yoy, the MNB will conclude that inflation has reached the Bank's medium-term target on a sustainable...

The ANC 2019 election manifesto – new strategies or just more of the old promises?
SOUTH AFRICA · Report · 16 Jan 2019

The African National Congress (ANC), the governing party in South Africa since the beginning of democracy in 1994, has delivered its election manifesto for the upcoming country’s general elections to be held during May of this year. By all accounts, these are likely to be the toughest elections ...

MPC leaves rates unchanged, as expected
TURKEY · In Brief · 16 Jan 2019 · 2 responses

In line with the consensus, the CBRT’s Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) kept the policy rate (one-week repo rate) at 24% (simple) today. Recall that this is the third consecutive meeting that the Bank left rates unchanged, since it had raised the policy rate by 625 bps on September 13th (see chart...

Alrosa seeks new projects in Zimbabwe
RUSSIA / FSU POLITICS · In Brief · 16 Jan 2019

The President of Zimbabwe visited Moscow on 14 January. He met executives of Alrosa which controls 25% of the world's diamonds. Sergei Ivanov heads Alrosa and is Putin's former chief of staff. Finance Minister Siluanov is also on its board. Zimbabwe desperately needs trade due to its fuel shortag...

​Towards a deal with US in Syria?
TURKEY · In Brief · 15 Jan 2019 · 1 response

The ebb and tide of the bromance between presidents Erdogan and Trump ought to be subject of inquiry for Hollywood screen writers and psychologists, but as a humble political commentator, I’m compelled to focus only on the very boring angle of Syria, which is one of the most pressing points of te...

Inflation dropped as expected, yet there is enough bad news
HUNGARY · In Brief · 15 Jan 2019

The headline rate of CPI-inflation fell to 2.7% yoy in December from 3.1% yoy in the previous month, in line with consensus expectation. So far the good news...The bad one is that there was more in the total monthly drop of the CPI (by 0.3%) caused by fuel prices (-6.9%) than we expected, whereas...

Pension reform proposal expected for Congress in February and other weekly topics
BRAZIL POLITICS · Report · 14 Jan 2019

The Ministry of the Economy is expected to present the Pension Reform proposal to President Bolsonaro. The idea is to send it to Congress in February. Bolsonaro meets with the President of Argentina, Mauricio Macri. On Thursday, the Central Bank releases the GDP preview (IBC-Br) for November. ...

Synthesis of the Brazilian economy
BRAZIL ECONOMICS · Report · 14 Jan 2019

During the election campaign, Bolsonaro avoided talking about economic issues, alleging lack of knowledge of the subject. He stated that the questions should be put to Paulo Guedes. However, after assuming office, he provoked some unnecessary and costly clashes by revealing his intention to impos...

Too many doubts, too many delays, and a step back
ECUADOR · Report · 14 Jan 2019

President Moreno has given preferential attention to the reconstruction of democratic institutions, achieving important even if insufficient outcomes. However, restoration of the macroeconomic and fiscal equilibrium still evidences weaknesses in its conceptual and practical development. A lack of...

Economics: Risk outlook for 2019
MEXICO · Report · 14 Jan 2019

The sharp setbacks experienced by Mexican financial markets and the peso during October and November on often troubling signals emanating from the incoming administration and its congressional majority, as well as the broader international market gyrations of the late autumn, eventually gave way ...

Headline CPI-inflation expected to have fallen to 2.7% yoy in December
HUNGARY · In Brief · 14 Jan 2019

Tomorrow at 9am BUD time, the KSH is scheduled to publish its consumer price data for December. Analysts contributing to Portfolio.hu's poll expect another sharp drop by the headline rate, to 2.7% yoy from November's 3.1%yoy, and we agree with that forecast. In our own spreadsheet, this result wo...

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