Peso Falls After Global Market Crash
Experts signaled that a potential recession in the United States caused investors to sell off pesos in a “domino effect” away from assets deemed as risky
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Sheinbaum Says No Set Date to Continue AMLO’s Constitutional Reforms
The president-elect attempted to stifle public fears by confirmed that her predecessor’s proposals require additional review
Read moreMexican Peso Reaches Strongest Level Against Dollar Since 2015
Despite the current strength of the peso, the Bank of Mexico predicts the peso-to-dollar exchange rate will rise above 18 to 1 by the end of the calendar year
Read moreJanuary’s Oil and Tax Revenue Register Below Government Predictions
As a result, Mexico only took in a total of 658.9 billion pesos in public revenue during the first month of 2024
Read moreBanxico Raises Key Interest Rate for 10th Time in a Row
XINHUA The Board of Governors of the Central Bank of Mexico (Banxico) agreed Thursday, Aug. 11, to raise the key benchmark interest rate for the 10th consecutive time, in anticipation of higher inflation in the short term. The new rate is 8.5 percent. Five members of the board voted unanimously to increase the target for the overnight interbank interest rate
Read moreMexico Introduces Income Package for 2022
By KELIN DILLON Mexico’s Commission of Finance and Public Credit of the Chamber of Deputies introduced its 2020 Income Package on Saturday, Oct. 16, to be debated and voted on Monday, Oct. 18. The package reveals an anticipated 4.1 percent Gross Domestic Product (GDP) growth and an estimated exchange rate of 20.3 pesos to the U.S. dollar, as well as
Read moreMexico’s Entangled State-Owned Utility Companies Suffer Huge Losses
By KELIN DILLON Amid the approval of Mexico’s controversial energy reform, the companies the initiative is based around, Mexico’s state-owned Petróleos Mexicanos (Pemex) and Federal Electricity Commission (CFE), each reportedly lost billions of pesos in 2020. According to Pemex’s 2020 financial report, the company lost 480.9 billion pesos last financial year, a staggering 38.2 percent increase in loss from 2019,
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By RICARDO CASTILLO Two Women’s Days It’s not amazing, given the nature of the brutality of some Mexican machos, to be witnessing the enormous support the two days of protest by Mexican women is getting just about from everywhere. You name it, social groups, universities, government secretariats (like Education, no classes on Monday, March 9) and entrepreneurial groups have all
Read moreWill Herrera Fit the Mold of AMLO’s Expectations?
By RICARDO CASTILLO Definitely the outstanding image in Mexico for the week July 8-12 was the stone-cold face of Arturo Herrera Gutiérrez as President Andrés Manuel López Obrador appointed him the government’s new finance secretary. Herrera Gutiérrez looked as if he was attending his own funeral. The fact is that a lot of political pundits noticed the grave gesture, that
Read moreUrzúa Resigns as Head of Finance Head, Herrera Pinch Hits
By RICARDO CASTILLO It was a political rock rattle and roll in the Mexican government Tuesday, July 9, when, over the course of just one hour one Treasury Secretary resigned and a new one was appointed by President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO). To offer a proper sequence of events, allow me to start from the beginning of the series
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