By KELIN DILLON Following his ratification as the head of Mexico’s Secretariat of Finance and Public Credit (SHCP), incoming Secretary of the Treasury Rogelio Ramírez de la O promised he would simplify the country’s tax structure in accordance with President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s (AMLO) economic plan. “Small and medium taxpayers cannot meet their obligations with the complex and expensive
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By KELIN DILLON According to the International Monetary Fund’s (IMF) External Sector Report, Mexico drastically needs to reform its fiscal practices and implement increased monetary support to its inhabitants if it wants to fully recover from the economic effects of covid-19. “More domestic fiscal support is needed in the short term to ease the tensions of the pandemic, reduce scars
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF Mexico’s auto parts exports increased by 27.5 percent in the first four months of 2021, compared to the same period in 2020, according to the National Auto Parts Industry Association (INA). The surge — the largest increase since 2010 — was primarily the result of the implementation of the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA), which
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By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS Mexican Labor Party Deputy Mauricio Toledo just can’t seem to dodge the bullets that keep being hurdled at him for alleged illicit enrichment and other criminal charges. Toledo, who took office in 2018 as part of the majority party National Regeneration Movement’s (Morena) leftist coalition, is currently being investigated by the Attorney General’s Office of Mexico City,
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF JPMorgan and Deutsche Bank will permanently close their representative offices in Mexico, according to a statement published by the Finance Secretariat in the Official Gazette on Wednesday, July 7. In February, Bloomberg News reported that JPMorgan, the largest bank in the United States, signed an agreement to transfer its local businesses to BBVA México.
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF Political uncertainty, excessive bureaucracy and growing insecurity have caused Mexico to drop 13 places on the international mining attractiveness index in just two years, and investment in the sector to fall 42.8 percent in that same period. According to the Canadian Fraser Institute research center, while in 2018 Mexico ranked 29th out of 83
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO), nearly three years into his six-year term, spoke to the nation in a televised address on Thursday, July 1, marking the third anniversary of his 2018 electoral victory. During the 40-minute address, AMLO showcased what he said were his administration’s most important successes and made predictions for
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By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS It pretty much was to be expected: First, Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) endowed the nation’s military with the gift of nonaccountability, meaning that it doesn’t have to report to anyone what it is doing or how much it is spending doing it. Then, he placed the construction and administration of his highly controversial Tren
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF Due to their speculative nature and frequent use for illicit purposes, cryptocurrencies are not and will not be legal assets in Mexico, Finance (SHCP, or Hacienda) Secretary Arturo Herrera said Monday, June 28. “Cryptocurrencies are prohibited for use in the Mexican financial system. There is nothing that is expected to change on that issue
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF After Mexico’s Central Bank (Banxico) shocked financial markets with a surprise .25 interest rate hike on Thursday, June 24, analysts are now predicting that the bank will issue additional increases this year to combat surging inflation, which reached more than 6 percent in May.Banxico raised its key rate to 4.25 percent in a split
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