Uruguay

BMI View: Uruguay's economy continues to show well-balanced growth, and we believe that consumer-oriented and manufacturing industries will push real GDP growth to 4.7% in 2011.... 2011-02-03

Uruguayan President José Mujica met with his Venezuelan counterpart Hugo Chávez in Caracas in late January, with the pair signing several bilateral agreements including technical-scientific... 2011-02-02

BMI View: Uruguay's unemployment rate continues to tick lower, dropping to 6.1% in November from 6.1% in October, and 7.7% back in January 2010. With seasonal employment traditionally... 2011-02-02

BMI View: Uruguay's unemployment rate continues to tick lower, dropping to 6.1% in November from 6.1% in October, and 7.7% back in January 2010. With seasonal employment traditionally... 2011-02-02

BMI View: Both domestic and external factors are aligning to support the Uruguayan government's bid to secure investment grade status by 2014. With the positive outlook for the public... 2011-01-12

Uruguay is the latest South American country to be affected by the Wikileaks releases, with messages from the US embassy in Montevideo revealing an occasionally tense relationship between... 2011-01-07

BMI View: We believe that the appreciatory pressures that saw the Uruguayan peso strengthen from an average exchange rate of UYU21.85/US$ in 2009 to UYU19.90/US$ in 2010 will remain... 2011-01-07

BMI View: We believe that the appreciatory pressures that saw the Uruguayan peso strengthen from an average exchange rate of UYU21.85/US$ in 2009 to UYU19.90/US$ in 2010 will remain... 2011-01-07

Uruguayan President José Mujica has criticised the size and bureaucratic nature of the country's bloated public sector, which employs a third of the workforce. Lamenting the slow passage... 2010-11-24

BMI View: The rebound in Uruguay's export levels shows no sign of letting up, with shipments rising 24.2% y-o-y in August, and 24.3% y-o-y in the first eight months of the year. With... 2010-11-24