Economía

La agencia calificadora Moody’s rebajó hoy la previsión de crecimiento económico para México al 1,9% para 2017 y al 2,3% en 2018 por los posibles cambios comerciales, fiscales y migratorios con la llegada de Donald Trump a la Casa Blanca. Leer

Sebastián Albella, socio del despacho Linklaters, ya estuvo dos veces en la Comisión

OXFORD Dictionaries has just named «post-truth» its word of the year. The timing certainly seems apt. Among the many recriminations unfolding in the wake of the American election are darts aimed at the press which, some argue, did an inadequate job during the campaign sorting truth, from half-truth, from innuendo, from outright fabrication. Interestingly, among those groups in the crosshairs is Facebook, which is now struggling to work out what its journalistic responsibilities are in this strange new digital age.

Facebook, which has nearly 2b monthly active users, is a media goliath. Users spend much of their time at the site interacting with friends and family, or sharing photos and videos. Yet Facebook is also an increasingly important location for the publication and sharing of news. According to a study conducted by the Pew Research Centre, 44% of American adults said they get some news from Facebook. Some of that news, as it turns out, is fake….Continue reading

FOR MUCH of 2016, things seemed to be going well in emerging markets. A pickup in commodity prices signalled that the global economy (and China’s, in particular) was more robust than feared as the year began. In the manufacturing sector, the average level of the purchasing managers’ index in developing countries ticked up from 49 at the start of the year (indicating contraction) to 51 (expansion) by October, according to Goldman Sachs.

Signs of stability could be identified even in the economies that most worried investors in recent years—the so-called “fragile five” of Brazil, India, Indonesia, South Africa and Turkey. All had seen their current-account deficits shrink in the past three years, making them less dependent on foreign inflows of capital.

Confidence in emerging markets had also revived among international investors. Before the American presidential election both the MSCI emerging-stockmarket index and JP Morgan’s emerging-market bond index had outperformed their developed-world equivalents this year.

But Donald Trump’s victory seems, at least temporarily, to have changed minds. On November 11th emerging-market currencies suffered…Continue reading

La constructora se deja en Bolsa otro 4% y se acerca a los niveles mínimos de agosto

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Competencia impone un sanción de 46,4 millones a ambas empresas por compartír información sobre el mercado de traslado de dinero en efectivo

Planteará que la vicepresidencia sea para la responsable del ICAC, Ana María Martínez-Pina. García-Legaz opta a presidir CESCE