Chile

POLITICAL RISK - Leading Centre-Right Candidate Drops Out Of Presidential Race Laurence Golborne, a former minister of mining, and the leading candidate to be the centre-right Coalición... 2013-05-02

Chile's export performance remained sluggish in March, as the country posted a 4.0% year-on-year (y-o-y) contraction in goods exports. Year-to-date, Chile's goods exports have fallen... 2013-05-02

We are revising down our end-2013 industrial production growth forecast from 4.5% to 4.0% in light of recent high frequency data and our view that weakening external demand will weigh... 2013-04-05

President Sebastian Piñera signed a bill in late March granting a 'March-bonus' to seven million low-income families. Under the bill, each beneficiary will receive the equivalent... 2013-04-04

Chile’s investigative police, the PDI, issued a report in February that exonerated former president Michelle Bachelet for her role in the government's response to the 2010... 2013-03-01

Chile's unemployment rate fell to 6.0% in January from 6.1% in December, the lowest level of unemployment that the country has seen since December 2006. We expect that low unemployment... 2013-03-01

While our Commodities team does not see additional short-term downside for metals prices, we note growing risks that sustained short-term weakness in copper prices could further weigh... 2013-02-27