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The Monetary Tightening Continues
BRAZIL ECONOMICS · Report · 15 Jun 2015

In the minutes of the last COPOM meeting, the Central Bank once again signaled that the cycle of raising the SELIC rate would continue. Although acknowledging the weakening of the labor market and deceleration of economic activity, concern over the strong inflation in recent months prompted the a...

I have waited so long
CHILE · Report · 15 Jun 2015

Executive summary How long are we going to wait for economic activity to go up, inflation to go down, and the Central Bank to start normalizing rates? The latest National Accounts show the economy on a seeming acceleration path. Even though this is good news, there are a few caveats to take...

Weekly Tracker: June 14-20
TURKEY · Report · 14 Jun 2015

Executive Summary An air of unreality surrounds the nation, with pundits trying to convince us that coalition formation would be easy, as parties shut the door to any compromise. Unless reality sets in and each party makes very unpleasant sacrifices, early elections are more likely. We shall get ...

MNB Policy: Defying Headwinds
HUNGARY · Report · 12 Jun 2015

Executive SummaryThe MNB stepped up efforts to ease policy over the past month. In late May, it cut the base rate by another 15 bps to 1.65%, and then in early June, it announced quantitative easing through a reform of its regulatory instruments and mechanism, effective late September. The latter...

IMF relaxes on debt restructuring
UKRAINE · In Brief · 12 Jun 2015

It looks like on debt restructuring everything develops in line with our expectations. The IMF mission arrived in Kyiv and was pretty much pleased to see serious progress on many directions. Reforms are gradually moving on disregard incredible resistance. What more, it looks like the general situ...

Week of June 11
BRAZIL POLITICS · Report · 11 Jun 2015

Issues regarding the relationship between the Legislative and Executive remain on the agenda this week. Congress will discuss presidential vetoes, changes in procedures for provisional measures and the compulsory budget. President Dilma, after a trip to Portugal, announces measures for the Minha ...

Liquid reserves boosted by SDRs
VENEZUELA · In Brief · 10 Jun 2015 · 2 responses

Blanca Vera reported today in El Nacional Web that BCV drew $1.5 billion from the IMF in recent days. This news would confirm our hypothesis that BCV sought funds to shore up foreign reserves ahead of the $798 million decline on June 3. Otherwise, liquid reserves would have fallen to $10 million....

Economics: Cost-push and further peso spike
MEXICO · Report · 10 Jun 2015

Executive Summary The depreciation and volatility that the Mexican peso has experienced in relation to the dollar since late last year is something that one would be ill-advised to try to minimize. As is widely known, much of the peso's recent depreciation (and volatility) is explained not only b...

Growth: Good Headline, Poor Dynamics
TURKEY · Report · 10 Jun 2015

GDP growth came in at 2.3%, y/y, in the first quarter of the year, better than both the consensus (1.6%, CNBC-e) and our even weaker (1%-1.5%) forecasts. But this hardly changes the fact that the underlying growth dynamics or momentum remains weak. It looks like private consumption drove growth i...

Monetary Policy Where It Belongs
PHILIPPINES · Report · 09 Jun 2015

Executive SummaryThe BSP has been telling markets that it will be moving into an interest rate corridor approach in implementing monetary policy. The plan, expected to be in place by early next year, will involve first putting in place a new deposit auction system to augment existing liquidity ma...

Politics: First Analyses of the Electoral Results
MEXICO · Report · 09 Jun 2015

Executive summaryThere were no changes in the relative weights of the three main parties in Congress. However, the amount of votes they gathered has diminished constantly and importantly. The coalition PRI-Green party will not have a majority in the Chamber of Deputies: based on available data, t...

Continuing With the Adjustment Despite the Costs
BRAZIL ECONOMICS · Report · 08 Jun 2015

Executive Summary There's no way to escape from the costs of the fiscal adjustment under way in Brazil. Besides sharp declines in industrial production and fixed capital investments, to name just two components of GDP, the unemployment rate is trending upward and real wages downward. The reces...

Week of June 8
BRAZIL POLITICS · Report · 08 Jun 2015

Several important events are scheduled for this week. There are expectations regarding the infrastructure package, which will be announced by President Dilma Rousseff on Tuesday, June 9. The House resumes the debate on political reform and discusses payroll tax exemptions. The PT holds its party ...

The National Assembly voted YES on a Constitutional ammendment to allow re-election. A second and definitive vote will be on Friday
DOMINICAN REPUBLIC · In Brief · 08 Jun 2015

On Saturday, the National Assembly voted YES on the proposal to amend the Constitution in order to allow a current President to run for re-election. The proposal passed with 183 votes out of 222. The assembly will meet again on Friday for a second and definitive vote. If finally approved, the ame...

General Elections: Turkey enters the era of political instability
TURKEY · In Brief · 08 Jun 2015 · 4 responses

General Elections: Turkey enters the era of political instability General elections shed light on several questions that vexed experts’ minds, but immediately kindled new ones which are proving to be intractable. My current guess is that it will be very difficult to form a coalition of any kind, ...

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