Macroeconomics

Emerging Latin America's economic growth rebounded to 2.2% in Q1 2017 supported by a strong growth in the manufacturing sector. The Manufacturing Index of Industrial Production growth rate for the region was 3.7% in Q1 2017. Panama registered the strongest manufacturing sector growth of 9.6%, while Chile’s manufacturing sector continued its downw...

In Q2 2017, growth in Latin America slowed to 1.9% compared to the growth of 2.2% in Q1 2017, as manufacturing sector shrank by 0.5% and external demand declined. Colombia, Mexico, and Panama’s economic growth declined registering 1.2%, 2.2%, and 5.4% growth, respectively, in Q1 2017. However, Panama continues to remain the fastest growing econom...

Economic growth remained stable in Q3 2017 with the region recording growth of 1.9%. Chile and Colombia registered higher growth compared to Q2 2017, while Mexico and Panama’s growth slowed slightly. Decline in manufacturing and mining sector in Mexico had adversely affected the country’s economy which recorded 1.6% growth in Q3 2017. Mexicoâ€...

Regional economic growth in Latin America is expected to slow-down from 2.2% in 2016 to 2.15 in 2017. The region is expected to start growing strongly from 2018 with an anticipated economic growth of 2.5%. The growth with be supported by the expansion of the Manufacturing sector. Mexico and Panama are projected to register strong growth of manufact...

Mounting geopolitical risks dampen the growth outlook for the Middle East countries despite higher oil prices and strong global growth. The intensified political instability in Saudi Arabia with the large scale operation by the Crown Prince to curb corruption led to oil price hitting over two-year high. The economy is expected to stabilize in 2018,...

Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa (BRICS) are expected to witness positive growth in Q4 2017. Public spending is anticipated to pick up in 2017. For 2017, Brazil and Russia are expected to register positive growth rates of 0.17% and 0.43% respectively, thereby recovering from the decline in 2016. Rebounding export has been the key drive...

Improvement in the global economic outlook helped to strengthen growth across BRICS nations. Brazil and Russia have registered positive economic growth in Q2 2017, rebounding from negative growth in Q1 2017. Brazil’s manufacturing sector recovered slowly in Q2 2017, registering a growth of 0.6% which is higher than the growth of 0.28% registered ...

The year 2016 has been a turnaround year for North America with the new American President having protectionist rhetoric and agenda for revisit of free trade deals. Even though the promised fiscal stimulus in terms of tax cuts favoring the corporates is not likely to come into effect in 2017, there exists a wide range of uncertainty possibilities s...

The year 2017 will be the sixth year of global stagnation and the global economic outlook indicates a slow-growing global economy, ranging from 3.0% to 3.4% Gross Domestic Product (GDP) growth. Global economic growth and business confidence have had a mixed impact thus far. The world has entered a period of greater geopolitical uncertainty. Geopoli...