Investing In: Mexico  – US Business News – How Mexico’s Oil Industry May Benefit US Investors – CNBC

Oct 26, 2012 | | 0 |

The political agenda of incoming Mexican president Enrique Pena Nieto has profound implications for Latin America’s second largest economy, including new labor laws, fiscal restructuring to broaden the tax base, and a take-no-prisoners stance against the drug cartels. But no industry, arguably, stands to be potentially transformed the way the energy sector does.via Investing In: Mexico  – US Business News – How Mexico’s Oil Industry May Benefit US Investors –...

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Schumpeter: The global Mexican | The Economist

Oct 26, 2012 | | 0 |

Mexico has transformed itself. A generation ago it defended its borders ferociously against yanqui imports. Today, thanks partly to the North American Free-Trade Agreement (NAFTA), it is one of the most open large economies in the world. Exports plus imports will reach the equivalent of 69% of GDP this year, according to HSBC, a bank—far higher than Brazil (19%) or China (48%). It is the world’s second-largest exporter of fridges, and the second-largest supplier of electronic goods to the United States.via Schumpeter: The global Mexican | The...

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Is Latin America Open for Business? New World Bank Report Shows Mixed Results – Forbes

Is Latin America Open for Business? New World Bank Report Shows Mixed Results – Forbes

Oct 25, 2012 | | 0 |

Mexico has made a number of improvements, jumping from 73rd on the 2006 list to 48th on the 2012 list.  It is far ahead of China, which did not move from 91st place on the list between the 2006 report and the 2013 report. In the 2011 report, Mexico in 35th place overall, was the top Latin American country on the list. Mexico jumped from 74th place to 26th place in terms of ease of starting a business between the 2012 an 2013 reports. Mexico is also emerging as one of the capital’s emerging IT outsourcing sector. In a recent article I explained that “More than 600,000 people already...

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Mexico Sept trade surplus is biggest in six months | Reuters

Mexico Sept trade surplus is biggest in six months | Reuters

Oct 25, 2012 | | 0 |

MEXICO CITY, Oct 25 (Reuters) – Mexican imports slowed inSeptember, allowing Latin America’s number two economy to postits biggest trade surplus in six months but bolstering fears ofslower growth.Imports fell 1.44 percent last month, weighed down by aslump in purchases of unfinished goods such as car parts. Thatpushed the trade surplus to a six-month high of $437 million, the biggest since March, the national statisticsagency said on Thursday.via UPDATE 2-Mexico Sept trade surplus is biggest in six months |...

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