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Synthesis of the Brazilian Economy
BRAZIL ECONOMICS · Report · 08 Jul 2024
OVERVIEW RADICALIZATION AND UNCERTAINTY It was necessary for Brazil to experience a much worse performance than emerging markets in general, as the Real weakened to R$ 5.70 per dollar, while expectations for both interest rates and inflation increased significantly, for President Lula to pu...
Politics: Some of Sheinbaum’s latest cabinet picks provide a reality check vs. the praise her previous choices enjoyed
MEXICO · Report · 08 Jul 2024 · 1 response
After winning praise over the course of June for 13 initial cabinet picks with strong professional credentials and experience, last week President-elect Claudia Sheinbaum included some more explicitly political choices when announcing four more appointments. A case in point is the decision to ret...
Budget Challenge: Wise Use, Sustainable Financing
PHILIPPINES · In Brief · 08 Jul 2024
The Executive Branch through the Department of Budget and Management and the cabinet-level Development Budget Coordination Committee (DBCC) will formally submit a budget proposal for P6.352 trillion for 2025 on July 25, a week after the legislature reopens on July 22. Lower House Speaker and Leyt...
Rate hold decision with a hawkish message
ISRAEL · In Brief · 08 Jul 2024
Rate hold decision with a hawkish message To our surprise, instead of a hint of possible loosening when geopolitical risks subside, the underlying message was one of concern regarding inflationary pressure going forward and concern regarding more prolonged hostilities at a more intense level prev...
Lira will try to approve the CBS and IBS Tax Reform bill this week, the CCJ will analyze two PECs, and Pacheco may submit a bill on state debt
BRAZIL POLITICS · Report · 08 Jul 2024
This week, the president of the House, Arthur Lira, will try to facilitate the approval of the so-called “consumption reform” (Complementary Bill No. 68/24). The report of the Working Group was presented last week. The president of the Senate Constitution and Justice Committee (CCJ), Davi Alcolum...
Economics: Latest data confirms deterioration of public finances
MEXICO · Report · 08 Jul 2024 · 1 response
Public finances continue to deteriorate just as had been expected ever since Congress passed the 2024 federal budget last November. The public deficit in its broadest definition (PSBR) expanded a real 153% yoy in January-May 2024 alongside a Federal Government deficit that was 2.5 times greater t...
Rate hold decision expected today, with a dovish bias
ISRAEL · Report · 08 Jul 2024
1. We expect a rate hold decision today, with a loosening bias. 2. Business sentiment reflects growth improvement in June, but expectations are for slower growth ahead. 3. Hi-tech service exports expanded rapidly in April, a positive factor for the shekel when geopolitical risks decline.
Russian airline grounding much of its fleet due to sanctions
RUSSIA / FSU POLITICS · In Brief · 07 Jul 2024
S7 Airlines cannot fly around 38 passenger aircraft due to lack of spare parts and maintenance. Some of the repairs can only be done outside of Russia. S7 is the second biggest airline in the country. Its Airbus A320neo jets are crucial to its fleet. It has 31, and 15 will not be flown until furt...
Not much new to write home about
TURKEY · Report · 07 Jul 2024
Turkey exploded in anti-Syrian rage during the week, while Syrians in Turkey-controlled areas of their country retaliated in kind. The politics author does not anticipate more inter-communal violence, but President Erdogan is now desperate to make peace with Assad. The major threat to Erdogan fro...
Mixed macro data reported again in recent days
HUNGARY · In Brief · 07 Jul 2024
In the past week, Mr. Orbán's lively diplomatic manoeuvres took all of the limelight, but there were also important data releases. Some of the new figures were quite positive, but others were not, and so the overall picture was not particularly impressive. First, the Q1 general government deficit...
A rate hold decision is expected hinting at likely loosening when geopolitical risks decline
ISRAEL · In Brief · 07 Jul 2024
Geopolitics: There is renewed optimism regarding a possible cease-fire and a hostage deal with Hamas not demanding a complete end to hostilities and total Israel withdrawal as pre-conditions for a deal. It is still difficult to say whether a deal will actually occur. Israel continues to operate i...
US postpones military drills in Georgia due to rift
RUSSIA / FSU POLITICS · In Brief · 07 Jul 2024
On July 5 the United States said it will not hold the exercises in the Republic of Georgia for the foreseeable future. This was explicitly because of the US reviewing relations with the former Soviet republic. Washington DC is unhappy with the Foreign Agent Act that was passed in Georgia in June ...
NATO pledges USD 43 billion military aid to Ukraine
RUSSIA / FSU POLITICS · In Brief · 07 Jul 2024
On June 5 NATO confirmed the rumors about the donation. This is ahead of the NATO Summit in Washington DC starting on July 9. The major donation is another attempt to Trump-proof Ukraine in case Trump becomes president again on January 20, 2025. The NATO Secretary-General called for the member th...
PM Orbán indeed showed up in Moscow today. But why?
HUNGARY · In Brief · 05 Jul 2024
Mr. Orbán indeed travelled to Moscow today, meeting president Putin, talking mainly about the war in Ukraine. They held a press conference afterwards, where Mr. Orbán said that he understands that the period of Hungary's rotating EU presidency is also a kind of a peace mission. A Kremlin spokesma...
TOPIC OF THE WEEK: 1Q24 entrenches theme of CA return to "normal" deficit position
CAUCASUS / CENTRAL ASIA · Report · 05 Jul 2024
The publication of current account data for the CCA economies for 1Q24 allows us to assess overall external performance in the region in the first quarter of the year. The key theme that we have argued previously, i.e., that the one-off sizable improvement of CA positions in 2022 on the back of ...