Strike at major copper mine leaves Chile flirting with recession

There is a good chance that a strike at Chile’s largest copper mine will tip the economy into a technical recession in Q1. While growth should return in Q2, the weakness of the non-mining sector means that we expect GDP to expand by just 1.0% in 2017. This is well below the current consensus forecast for growth of 2.0%.

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