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Mexico’s tight labour market continues to feed inflation

Tightness in Mexico’s labour market continues to fuel wage pressures, with real wages now rising at their fastest pace since the early 2000s. But this isn’t being matched by productivity growth and, in turn, threatens to keep inflation above Banxico’s  tolerance band for even longer. There’s a growing risk that, once a monetary easing cycle gets underway, rate cuts proceed more gradually than even we anticipate.

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