Economy

Mexico recorded a robust US$1.7bn surplus in its goods trade account in March, bringing down the year-to-date deficit to US$1.1bn. While year-on-year (y-o-y) export growth contracted... 2013-05-03

Mexico's bi-weekly inflation reading continued to climb in H1 April, coming in at 4.7% year-on-year (y-o-y). While core prices remained stable at 3.0% y-o-y, non-core prices jumped... 2013-05-03

Mexico continues to report a decline in net migration, though the pace has slowed somewhat in the past year. Indeed, the country lost on average 12.6 people per 10,000 - a marked improvement... 2013-04-05

Mexico ended 2012 with 6.0 months of import cover - a record high - reflecting continued efforts by the central bank to bolster the country's macroeconomic stability by building up... 2013-03-02

While Mexico just posted its largest goods trade shortfall since 2008, we do not believe that the outlook for the external sector is as dire as the headline figure suggests. Indeed,... 2013-03-01

Mexico recorded growth of 3.9% in 2012, slightly below our 4.0% estimate, on the back of an even greater slowdown than we had initially anticipated in the secondary sector in Q412.... 2013-02-19

Mexico ended 2012 with a fiscal deficit of 2.6% of GDP, slightly larger than the 2.5% of GDP recorded in 2011 and higher than the 2.4% that we had anticipated. This came on the back... 2013-02-01

The successful resolution to the US’ fiscal cliff debate presents some upside risk to our forecast that Mexico will post fairly tepid real GDP growth of only 3.4% in 2013.... 2013-01-09

While remittance inflows to Mexico have slowed dramatically in recent months, to average 0.3% year-on-year (y-o-y) through September, we anticipate far stronger inflows in Q412. As... 2012-11-19

Consumer price inflation in Jamaica ticked up from 5.4% year-on-year (y-o-y) in August to 6.7% y-o-y in September. We believe inflation will continue to head higher, given the severe... 2012-10-29