Economy
Puerto Rico
Consumer price inflation in Puerto Rico declined sharply from 1.7% year-on-year (y-o-y) in March to 0.5% y-o-y in April. We expect demand-side inflationary pressures to increase modestly...
2013-06-03Barbados
Consumer price inflation in Barbados hit just 2.3% year-on-year (y-o-y) in February after dipping to 1.2% y-o-y in January, and we see growing risks to our forecast for price growth...
2013-06-03Trinidad & Tobago
Trinidad & Tobago released April consumer price inflation data in May showing a drop in inflation to 5.5% year-on-year (y-o-y), down from 6.9% y-o-y the previous month. This...
2013-06-03Guyana
Guyana's foreign reserves held steady at US$781.1mn in March. While Guyana's foreign reserves declined in month-on-month terms during the first two months of 2013, we believe the central...
2013-06-03Dominican Republic
The Banco Central de la República Dominicana (BCRD) reduced its policy rate from 5.00% to 4.25% in May, against expectations. While an acceleration in credit growth in the...
2013-05-31Barbados
The first four months of 2013 have seen tourist arrivals to Barbados disappoint, posing downside risk to our forecast for real GDP growth of 0.6% this year after zero growth in 2012....
2013-05-29Kazakhstan
While we believe Grenada remains on the path to an orderly debt restructuring as the government appears committed to working with its creditors, a weak growth outlook and a poor fiscal...
2013-05-28Guyana
Following strong real GDP growth in 2012, we have revised up our 2013 and 2014 growth forecasts for Guyana. While we believe the sugar industry will struggle in the coming years, greater...
2013-05-14
