Economy
Paraguay
We have revised down Paraguay's 2012 headline growth forecast to 3.2%, from 4.2% previously. Although we expect domestic demand to remain growth supportive, the ongoing global economic...
2012-01-10Chile
BMI View: Chile's consumer price index continued to inch up in December, reaching 4.4% y-o-y, well above the upper limit of the 2.0% to 4.0% range targeted by the central bank. The...
2012-01-10Chile
BMI View: Chile's consumer price index continued to inch up in December, reaching 4.4% y-o-y, well above the upper limit of the 2.0% to 4.0% range targeted by the central bank. The...
2012-01-10Argentina
BMI View:Argentina continued to show strong resilience to global headwinds in Q311, as its GDP grew by 9.1% y-o-y. While we see significant upside risk to our GDP growth forecast of...
2012-01-09Paraguay
BMI View: Paraguay's consumer price index came in at 4.9% y-o-y in December, just below the 5.0% level targeted by the central bank. While the December reading surprised to the downside,...
2012-01-09Uruguay
We expect the Banco Central del Uruguay (BCU) will hold its monetary policy rate at 8.75% in 2012, following its decision to hike by 75 basis points (bps) in its last policy meeting...
2012-01-06BMI View: The 2012 macroeconomic outlook for Latin America and the Caribbean region will be dominated by slower, but resilient domestic demand growth, supported by monetary and fiscal...
2011-12-15Argentina
BMI View: Despite the Argentine economy's strong resilience to global headwinds in 2011, we reiterate our view that growth is set for a slowdown in 2012, due to a drag from net exports...
2011-12-08
