Indigenous economic power is seeing “hockey-stick growth” and is an opportunity, Indigenomics Institute CEO tells Scotiabank ...

Budget balance forecasts: $4.6 bn (1.0% of nominal GDP) in FY25—an improvement of $4.2 bn versus Budget 2024 (chart 1). Net debt: revised down by $4 bn in FY25; as a share of nominal output, net debt ...

In September, retail and wholesale activity signaled a further contraction in consumption. Retail sales dropped for the fifth consecutive month, this time by -1.5% y/y (vs -1.2% expected, -0.8% ...

The main market driver this morning comes to us from the Eurozone where a sharp weakening in the PMIs has prompted accelerated bets on ECB policy easing. Pricing for the December 12 th ECB meeting ...

Canada’s consumers are alive and kicking and on track to post the strongest back-to-back quarterly gains in retail sales volumes in a decade (chart 1). The last time we saw 5%+ quarterly annualized ...

Budget balance projections: -$11 bn (-1.8% of nominal GDP) in FY25, -$9.2 bn (-1.5%) in FY26 (all figures after deposits into Generations Fund)—a slight deterioration from Budget 2024 projections; a ...

On Thursday of last week—the day before the Economic Package presentation—the credit rating agency Moody’s changed Mexico’s credit rating outlook from stable to negative. The statement indicates that ...

Stocks are mostly higher and sovereign bond yields mostly lower so far this morning. NA equity futures and European cash markets are broadly higher. Sovereign bonds are mostly bid with yields ...

Canadian CPI, m/m %, October, NSA: Actual: 0.4 / 2.0 Scotia: 0.4 / 2.0 Consensus: 0.3 / 1.9 Prior: -0.4 / 1.6 ‘Core’ gauges, m/m % SAAR: Trimmed mean CPI: 4.1 Weighted median CPI: 3.4 Avg of TM and WM ...

On Wednesday, November 20 th, DANE published the import data for September 2024. Imports reached USD 5.16 bn CIF, a level lower than that of August 2024 (-6.7% m/m) but registering a growth of 4.4% in ...

Data released by DANE on Monday, November 18 th, showed that Colombia’s real GDP grew 2.0% y/y in Q3-2024, below the 2.3% expected by market consensus and BanRep’s forecast of 2.4%, and slightly above ...