Chile’s constitution, Brazil fiscal worries mounting

This week marked the two-year anniversary of the mass protests in Chile which caused a political risk premium to emerge in local financial markets and the currency, and we think that lingering political risks will keep them under pressure for some time. Similarly, we think that hard-hit Brazilian assets will continue to fair poorly from here, with suggestions this week that the government will break the spending cap adding to the evidence that the country's public finances will deteriorate in the coming years.