Mexican Q1 GDP disappoints

The pick-up in annual GDP growth in Mexico in Q1 masks the fact that in q/q terms the economy slowed fairly sharply. With the current pace of manufacturing growth set to ease later in the year as demand from the US slows, we are sticking to our below consensus forecast for Mexican growth to drop to just 3.5% in 2012.

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