Colombia

BMI View: While unemployment in Colombia fluctuates with the seasons, we continue to believe that it will head lower over the coming quarters, as strong levels of economic activity... 2011-05-05

BMI View: Colombian full-year real GDP growth for 2010 came in at 4.3%, above both consensus and our own forecast, of 3.8% which was recently revised down from 3.9% due to the flood... 2011-03-31

Unless the Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos' government is granted additional funding from Congress, we believe that the flood reconstruction efforts are going to come in under... 2011-03-31

BMI View: While tensions between the Colombian government and the Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia (FARC) are likely to remain over the coming years, we believe that the... 2011-03-14

BMI View: While Colombia's fiscal outlook remains positive, owing to a better-than-expected fiscal reading recorded in 2010, our forecasts now imply a mild fiscal deterioration in... 2011-03-10

While the end to the Colombian trucker strike is good news for the country's economy, given that mediation talks with the government ultimately proved unsuccessful we believe that tensions... 2011-03-04

BMI View: Latest data from the Colombian central bank (BanRep) revealed that the country's goods trade deficit came in at US$0.86bn in 2010, not far off our projected US$1.04bn shortfall.... 2011-03-04

BMI View: Latest data from the Colombian central bank (BanRep) revealed that the country's goods trade deficit came in at US$0.86bn in 2010, not far off our projected US$1.04bn shortfall.... 2011-03-04

BMI View: The Colombian central bank (BanRep)'s decision to hike the policy rate by 25 basis points (bps) to 3.25% on February 25 supports our forecasts for a normalisation of monetary... 2011-02-28

We expect the Colombian central bank (BanRep) to keep its policy rate on hold at 3.00% in today's rate meeting. However, with cost-push and demand-pull price pressures driving inflation... 2011-02-25