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Costa Rica / Economy
One of our major risks to the Costa Rican economy has been the possibility of a major slowdown in the US, and it appears that it may already be having a toll on foreign investment, following a banner year in 2007. We are not yet shifting our forecasts for the external account, however, until Q1 data emerges.
2008-04-15Guatemala / Economy
With inflation remaining above Banguat's 7.0% upper limit, at 9.1% in March, a sense of panic is setting in, beginning with the government's proposal to use public funds to stem higher...
2008-04-15Costa Rica / Economy
Foreign reserves increased by US$1bn in 2007 to US$4.1bn, owing to high levels of foreign direct investment (FDI) and the central bank's purchases of US dollars in order to maintain...
2008-04-15Business & Industry
Nicaragua
BMI View: The current crisis in Nicaragua's energy sector is due to the standoff between the Spanish firm Union Fenosa and congress, but also has its origins in the lack of new...
2006-09-12Nicaragua
BMI View: The current crisis in Nicaragua's energy sector is due to the standoff between the Spanish firm Union Fenosa and congress, but also has its origins in the lack of new...
2006-09-12Honduras
BMI View: The government is flying in the face of the opposition from some transnational oil companies by planning to launch an international tender to buy cheaper oil, which should...
2006-09-11Guatemala
BMI View: The changes proposed by a commission on mining rights should allow the continuation of foreign investment in an area that still has export earning potential for Guatemala.
2006-09-11Guatemala
A week after he was dismissed from his post by President Álvaro Colom, former Interior Ministry adviser Victor Rivera was killed in his home, by gangsters, it is suspected. Local...
2008-04-15Guatemala
A week after he was dismissed from his post by President Álvaro Colom, former Interior Ministry adviser Victor Rivera was killed in his home, by gangsters, it is suspected. Local...
2008-04-15Guatemala
A week after he was dismissed from his post by President Álvaro Colom, former Interior Ministry adviser Victor Rivera was killed in his home, by gangsters, it is suspected. Local...
2008-04-15Nicaragua
Hundreds of Nicaraguans marched in the North Atlantic Autonomous Region (Raan) and the capital Managua in protest of both the supreme electoral court's decision to suspend regional...
2008-04-15Costa Rica
One of our major risks to the Costa Rican economy has been the possibility of a major slowdown in the US, and it appears that it may already be having a toll on foreign investment,...
2008-04-15Guatemala
With inflation remaining above Banguat's 7.0% upper limit, at 9.1% in March, a sense of panic is setting in, beginning with the government's proposal to use public funds to stem higher...
2008-04-15Costa Rica
Foreign reserves increased by US$1bn in 2007 to US$4.1bn, owing to high levels of foreign direct investment (FDI) and the central bank's purchases of US dollars in order to maintain...
2008-04-15El Salvador
BMI View: Remittance flows, primarily from El Salvadorans working in the US, totalled a record US$3.7bn in 2007, helping to offset a widening trade account deficit (at US$4.7bn,...
2008-04-15Guatemala
President Álvaro Colom, who was inaugurated in January, is the country's first centre-leftist leader in half a century. Unfortunately, just weeks into his four-year term, he has...
2008-02-11BMI View: Although national elections will not be held until 2009, campaigning has already begun. El Salvador's high short-term political risk rating (72.7) reflects our belief...
2007-12-04BMI View: High imported fuel prices have pushed the Honduran government toward negotiating with Venezuela to become part of the Petrocaribe oil subsidy initiative. The move is...
2007-12-04BMI View: In a contest that was as close as had been advertised, Álvaro Colom of the UNE beat Otto Pérez Molina of the PP in the second and decisive round of the Guatemalan...
2007-11-05
