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COUNTRY INSIGHTS
A Brief Recap on the GDP Data
TURKEY · Report · 15 Jan 2017
The Turkish Statistics Institute (Turkstat) introduced very significant revisions to the National Income Accounts (NIA) data in early December, at the time of the release of the third quarter growth stats. We learnt, among other things, that we were quite a bit richer than we thought -- by about ...
Political and Economic Update
TURKEY · Report · 15 Jan 2017
We are very worried about the state of politics in Turkey at a very fundamental level because the country is becoming more detached from the reality as we speak. We identify this malaise as “self-hypnosis”, which has a very ugly anti-Westernism at its core. The new paradigm is in contradiction wi...
Tax police ‘accidental’ reform
UKRAINE · In Brief · 15 Jan 2017
In December 2016 parliament accidentally deprived powers of the tax police. A package of tax changes was under consideration, and by some mistake the tax police was cancelled. We may never know who was the author of this "mistake" but that’s what happened. The tax police was one of the key instru...
CPI-inflation beat expectations in December, marks significant upside risk in 2017-2018
HUNGARY · In Brief · 14 Jan 2017
CPI-inflation came out at 0.4% mom, 1.8% yoy in December, the highest yoy rate since June 2013. The average analyst (including us) expected 0.1% mom, 1.5% yoy, and judged by the Q4 average inflation forecast released just before Christmas, the MNB seems to have shared the consensus view.The bulk ...
Bracing for a difficult year
VENEZUELA · Report · 10 Jan 2017 · 2 responses
Maduro gears up to 2017 with a more loyal cabinet, bringing in left-wing radical civilians and leaving intact the military component. He will continue managing emergencies one by one, hoping that better oil prices and creative financial engineering will allow him to overcome crises. The new cabin...
Week of January 9
BRAZIL POLITICS · Report · 09 Jan 2017
The highlight of the week is the Central Bank meeting to set the benchmark interest rate (Selic). IBGE releases inflation data for December and accumulated results for 2016. In politics, the succession for president of the Lower House is heating up in Brasília, with Federal Representatives Jovair...
Economic Activity is Still Weak
BRAZIL ECONOMICS · Report · 09 Jan 2017
In our last Quarterly Outlook we projected a slow recovery of economic activity starting in the second quarter of 2017. Despite the slight improvement in some indicators, the most recent data still show signs of contraction of both household consumption and gross fixed capital formation. GDP prob...
Who will lead the BSP?
PHILIPPINES · In Brief · 09 Jan 2017
The financial community entered 2017 with President Rodrigo Duterte's December threat against the Anti-Money Laundering Council (AMLC) still ringing in its ears. In his second challenge in as many months to the AMLC, which is chaired by the BSP Governor, the President said that "Tetangco is about...
Political and Economic Update
TURKEY · Report · 08 Jan 2017 · 1 response
After the New Year’s Eve massacre at the posh Istanbul nightclub Reina, terror struck a courthouse in Izmir killing four and injuring eight. More atrocious incidents are highly likely. Meanwhile, AKP extended the State of Emergency for another three months, but we bet that it won’t be the last ti...
“Painful Compromises” of Local Oligarchs
UKRAINE · In Brief · 08 Jan 2017 · 2 responses
On Dec. 29th 2016, Viktor Pinchuk, local oligarch and son-in-law of ex-President Leonid Kuchma made a real coming out on pages of WSJ with an article ‘Ukraine Must Make Painful Compromises for Peace With Russia’. The name of the article tells for itself. Mr. Pinchuk suggests accepting agenda that...
A bit more clarity on the fiscal results of 2016
HUNGARY · In Brief · 07 Jan 2017
The public can see a bit more clearly after an announcement by the Economy Ministry yesterday, even though key questions remain unanswered. The new piece that found its place in the puzzle is that the full-year cash deficit of the central government ended up at HUF848bn or 2.4% of GDP. This impli...
Dealing with Uncertainty
RUSSIA / FSU POLITICS · Report · 06 Jan 2017
Russia’s most popular opposition politician, Alexei Navalny, announced his candidacy for the 2018 presidential election. Although it will be a while before the formal candidate registration procedure starts, this move can win some public support for Navalny and create a supportive context for the...
Unprecedented fiscal data: a general government surplus in Q1-Q3 2016
HUNGARY · In Brief · 05 Jan 2017
Well, it is perhaps no great surprise any more, given the release of a very strong net financing capacity number about a month ago. Yet, it is history because it is unprecedented. The government's ESA2010 balance, the main indicator watched by the EU and everyone else, was a surplus equivalent to...
The $5 billion surprise
VENEZUELA · In Brief · 03 Jan 2017 · 2 responses
On 29 December 2016, Venezuela issued a $5 billion bond due in 2036, with a 6.5 percent coupon, after five years without dollar-denominated issues. The manager is Haitong International Securities / Haitong Bank, S.A., based in Hong Kong. The legal framework for this bond is the 2016 Indebtedness ...
Good-Bye High Growth/High Inflation, Hello Stagflation
TURKEY · Report · 03 Jan 2017
Consumer prices rose by a much higher-than-expected 1.6% in December, with the 12-month rate ending the year at 8.5%, up from 7% in November, markedly worse than both the Bank’s 7.5% estimate, and our somewhat higher forecast. The jump in food prices is partly to blame, but increase is broad-base...