Politic / Economic issues


25Aug

Dollar turns down as U.S. stocks open higher

NEW YORK (MarketWatch) -- The U.S. dollar turned down against the euro on Thursday morning after the U.S. stock market opened in positive territory, a change from the direction futures pointed to.

Posted in Politic / Economic issues

25Aug

Mexico had $10.6 bln first half direct investment

MEXICO CITY (MarketWatch) -- Mexico received $10.6 billion in foreign direct investment in the first half of 2011, according to preliminary data released Wednesday by the Economy Ministry.

Posted in Politic / Economic issues, Foreing investment in Mexico, Manufacturing in Mexico, Government

24Aug

Mexico's Peso Closes Stronger Against US Dollar As Stocks Jump

MEXICO CITY (Dow Jones)--Mexico's peso strengthened modestly against the U.S. dollar Tuesday as local stocks rose sharply in line with U.S. equities, and Mexican government bonds had a mixed performance.

Posted in Politic / Economic issues, Government

22Aug

A flash in the PAN

TWO of Latin America’s three biggest economies, Brazil and Argentina, are headed by women (see article and article). Might Mexico make it a clean feminist sweep next year? The ruling National Action Party (PAN) has been struggling to find a popular candidate for the presidential election in 2012 (the constitution bars the president, Felipe Calderón, from seeking a second term). The opposition has mocked the PAN’s hopefuls as the “seven dwarves”. The American ambassador privately described them as “grey”.

(He was withdrawn soon after the offending cable was leaked.) But polls suggest that Josefina Vázquez Mota, the PAN’s leader in the Chamber of Deputies, is emerging as a possible technicolour candidate.


Posted in Politic / Economic issues, Government

22Aug

Global economy is dangerously close to recession

Concerns over the wavering US economy and Eurozone debt crisis has put world markets in turmoil and most of them witnessed massive sell-offs in the past week. Excerpts from a Morgan Stanley research report dated 17 August 2011.

Recent economic events in the US and Europe have been disappointing. Europe's insufficient response to the sovereign crisis and the events around lifting the US debt ceiling have negatively impacted the financial markets and substantially eroded business and consumer confidence. In the first half of 2011, US GDP grew by an annual average rate of less than 1%, which shows brittleness of the US recovery in the face of external shocks (oil, Japan earthquake) despite ongoing fiscal stimulus.


Posted in Politic / Economic issues

22Aug

Nueva recesión, amenaza para emergentes

Lideraron el crecimiento tras la crisis de 2008, pero las condiciones para estos países cambiaron; China, la nación con mayor peso en este grupo, enfrentará dificultades si cae la economía de EU.

A finales de 2010, Jim O'Neill -gerente de análisis de Goldman Sachs que hizo referencia por primera vez al grupo BRIC- insistió en la posibilidad de tener un nuevo grupo de potencias emergentes bajo el término N11 (Next Eleven) que comprendería, entre otras naciones, a México, Corea, Turquía, Filipinas e Indonesia, sumadas al bloque BRIC.

El criterio era meramente el tamaño de las economías, sin embargo, en cuanto a la resistencia que México tendría a un nuevo choque en Estados Unidos, el panorama no luce tan favorable.

Luego de que el viernes el INEGI diera a conocer la desaceleración en el crecimiento del segundo trimestre, JP Morgan anticipó que México podría crecer alrededor de 4% este año, inferior a su proyección previa de 4.2%.

El Producto Interno Bruto (PIB) de México creció 3.3% en el segundo trimestre de 2011 en comparación con el mismo periodo del año anterior, dato que también contrastó con la expansión de 4.6% presentada entre enero y marzo pasados, según datos del INEGI.


Posted in Politic / Economic issues