Argentina’s Senate this week passed the government’s IMF-endorsed austerity budget for next year, but bond markets are starting to share our concerns over mounting political risks surrounding October’s elections. Elsewhere, the appointment of ex-finance minister Joaquim Levy as head of Brazil’s development bank is likely to maintain investor confidence, for now at least, in incoming president Jair Bolsonaro’s reform agenda.
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