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A Corruption Deadlock
UKRAINE · Forecast · 02 Mar 2016 · 1 response
A political scandal, in which Minister of Economy Aivaras Abromavicius blamed cronies of President Poroshenko for corruption, is seizing public attention. The scandal made public an issue already disturbing Western donors: the “undercover” reforms the friends of the president and prime minister h...
Low Growth Continues into the Fourth Quarter of 2015
SOUTH AFRICA · Report · 01 Mar 2016
Official growth figures released by Statistics South Africa show that after having increased by a measly 0.7% during the third quarter of 2015, quarter-on-quarter real gross domestic product (GDP) at market prices went up by another paltry amount of 0.6% during the fourth quarter of 2015. Further...
Bracing for Downturn
COLOMBIA · Forecast · 29 Feb 2016
The economy has fared relatively well, given the bleak global economic outlook and oil price shock. Yet, everything that could go wrong did, and oil prices have now reached unimaginable lows. This, paired with weak external growth, has led us to revise our 2016 GDP growth forecast downward, to 2....
Indian budget announcement
INDIA · Report · 29 Feb 2016
Three important problems framed yesterday's budget speech. The first was the deepening recession. The second was the banking crisis. The third was the political difficulties that have increasingly beset the BJP. The outcome we got yesterday perhaps reflect a mix of these compulsions. While the...
Press conference regarding debt restructuring
ARGENTINA · In Brief · 29 Feb 2016
Just in time ahead of tomorrow’s opening session of the Congress, Finance Minister Alfonso Prat-Gay and Finance Secretary Luis Caputo will give a press conference today to announce the agreement reached with Holdouts. The conference will happen today at 6pm Buenos Aires time (4pm NYC or 9pm Londo...
Week of February 29
BRAZIL POLITICS · Report · 29 Feb 2016
The Federal Supreme Court (STF) will decide if it will accept the accusation against the president of the House, Eduardo Cunha. The decision could increase pressure for his removal. In the economy, we highlight the Central Bank’s decision on interest rates and the 2015 GDP figures, which will be ...
Forces Behind the Depreciation of the Real
BRAZIL ECONOMICS · Report · 29 Feb 2016
Executive Summary: It is very hard to gauge the tendency of the exchange rate, but the task is easier when the economy is plagued by large risks. In the Brazilian case a close correlation exists between the exchange rate and two risk measures: the CDS quotations and the EMBI-Brazil. In the pas...
A brave monetary bet
ARGENTINA · Report · 29 Feb 2016
Before the start of the new congressional session this Tuesday, for which Macri’s opening speech will probably include the announcement of a bill to be presented regarding the ongoing negotiations with the Holdouts, this report reviews some of the monetary policy modifications implemented so far ...
Credit Contraction and Firms’ Health
BRAZIL ECONOMICS · Report · 29 Feb 2016
Fixed capital investments have been falling since the third quarter of 2013, and the steep downward path of demand gives no hope of recovery. The contraction of credit to companies, both for expansion and working capital, is acting in the same direction.
“Supply-Side Reforms” to Cut Overcapacity
CHINA · Report · 29 Feb 2016
Though many statistics are missing because of the Chinese New Year, we are optimistic about the economy, based on available data. In January, monetary policy continued the expansionary trend it began last July. Narrow money, M1, rose 18.6% y/y, up 3.4 pps from December, finally recovering to 2003...
Weekly Tracker: Feb 28-Mar 5
TURKEY · Report · 28 Feb 2016
Executive Summary Presidential spokesperson Mr. Ibrahim Kalin ruled out early elections to resolve the Executive Presidency controversy, but we still believe Turks will face a ballot later in the year. President Erdogan might think his lack of formal power at the top of the totem pole is unsustai...
Forint ended the week on the 'right' side of EURHUF 310
HUNGARY · In Brief · 27 Feb 2016
In our previous post here at GSD on Monday, we predicted that the MNB was likely to make forceful verbal intervention already on the following day, with a view to weaken the forint back above EURHUF 310 from the EURHUF 307-308 levels it held for a few days at that time. Since then, verbal interve...
A Stronger Rebound
INDONESIA · Report · 26 Feb 2016
Encouraging news was reported by The Central Board of Statistics: Indonesian economic growth in Q4 2015 was higher than expected. In Q3 indications of a turning point had emerged but they were not strong enough to ensure a real turnaround. Previously, such a weak turning point later on turned bac...
SA Budget Speech 2016: Minister Heralds a Serious Change of Course
SOUTH AFRICA · Report · 26 Feb 2016
SA Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan, hardly a full two months in the job, stood at the Parliament yesterday to deliver the toughest budget of the post-Apartheid era. His budget speech had one over-arching objective and faced many challenges. The strategic imperative was to ward off the looming pro...
Unemployment Slightly Lower but Still Unimpressive
SOUTH AFRICA · Report · 25 Feb 2016
The quarterly labor force survey results released by Statistics South Africa show that unemployment declined by 1.0 percentage point during the last quarter of 2015, resulting in an unemployment rate of 24.5%. See Graph 1. This outcome is the result of the number of unemployed people declining by...