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Taking stock of Amlo’s first 100 days

Sunday marks Andrés Manuel López’s Obrador’s (Amlo’s) first 100 days as Mexico’s president, and some of his unorthodox policies appear to have resulted in a 50-60bp risk premium on sovereign debt. That said, Amlo has kept the core tenets of fiscal and monetary orthodoxy in place. So long as this remains the case, the premium on Mexican debt is unlikely to rise much further.

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