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Mexican survey data overstating slowdown in the real economy

The collapse in Mexico’s main business surveys and a number of confidence indices since President Trump’s election victory in November has been alarming, but it hasn’t yet been accompanied by a weakening in the hard data. As such, while we think the economy probably lost some steam in Q1, we suspect the surveys have significantly overstated the slowdown.

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