Brazil's real inches up ahead of expected rate hike
Brazil to hike rates by 25 basis points on Sept 18- Poll
Colombia govt will not change proposed 2025 budget value
Mexico 2nd qtr private spending down 0.6% qtr/qtr
Argentina Q2 GDP due
Latam FX up 0.6%, stocks up 0.2%
By Ankika Biswas
Sept 18 (Reuters) -A Latin American currencies index hit its highest in nearly a month on Wednesday, as investors waited to learn the size of an all-but-certain U.S. Federal Reserve rate cut, while Brazil's real climbed ahead of a local monetary policy decision.
The U.S. central bank is set to announce a decision at 2 p.m. EDT (1800 GMT) that will kick off a rate-cutting cycle.
Market participants have largely factored in a 50 basis point U.S. rate cut, with such bets standing at 61%, up sharply from a week ago, CME's FedWatch Tool showed.
Although Latam countries began easing rates long before the Fed, lower U.S. rates could give EM central banks more scope to ease further to support domestic growth.
Moving in the opposite direction to its peers, however, Brazil is expected to increase its rates by 25 basis points later in the day, marking the start of a short tightening campaign to quash persistent inflationary trends.
The Brazilian real BRL= rose for the fifth straight session to strengthen 0.3% against the dollar, the highest in nearly a month.
"Brazil and particularly BRL has traded better over the last few sessions, where we remain cautiously optimistic, with assets exposed to legislative volatility," Citi analysts said.
"But with our expected hike today, probably enough to calm the waters."
The MSCI index for Latam currencies .MILA00000CUS rose 0.6% to its highest level since Aug. 20, with Peru's sol PEN= rising 0.4% to a three-week high and the Colombian peso COP= advancing 0.2%.
Colombia's Finance Minister Ricardo Bonilla said in an interview on Tuesday that its government will not modify the value of $123.9 billion for its proposed 2025 budget.
Meanwhile, the Mexican peso MXN= dropped 0.5% after briefly touching a more than three-week high in early trade, emerging as the worst-hit Latam currency on the day.
Data showed Mexican private spending fell 0.6% during the second quarter compared to the previous three-month period.
Chile's peso CLP= also weakened 0.2% against the dollar, with the local equity market shut for a public holiday.
The MSCI Latam stocks index .MILA00000PUS rose 0.2% to a three-week high, even though most of the major regional stock bourses were trading lower.
Argentina's second-quarter GDP is also due later in the day, and is expected to show the economy has shrunk 1.4% year-on-year, the fifth such decline as a recession deepens.
Elsewhere, Cuba's booming private businesses braced as the island's communist-run government implemented laws aimed at more tightly regulating the private sector amid a deepening economic crisis.
Key Latin American stock indexes and currencies at 1415 GMT:
Equities | Latest | Daily % change |
MSCI Emerging Markets .MSCIEF | 1088.5 | -0.18 |
MSCI LatAm .MILA00000PUS | 2270.29 | 0.21 |
Brazil Bovespa .BVSP | 134739.86 | -0.16 |
Mexico IPC .MXX | 52342.57 | 0.12 |
Chile IPSA .SPIPSA | 6323.95 | -0.36 |
Argentina Merval .MERV | 1813297.98 | 0.0 |
Colombia COLCAP .COLCAP | 1312.54 | -0.06 |
Currencies | Latest | Daily % change |
Brazil real BRL= | 5.4669 | 0.28 |
Mexico peso MXN= | 19.1865 | -0.49 |
Chile peso CLP= | 931.55 | -0.22 |
Colombia peso COP= | 4199 | 0.17 |
Peru sol PEN= | 3.7355 | 0.39 |
Argentina peso (interbank) ARS=RASL | 962 | -0.051975052 |
Argentina peso (parallel) ARSB= | 1250 | 2 |
Reporting by Ankika Biswas in Bengaluru; editing by Barbara Lewis
면책조항: XM Group 회사는 체결 전용 서비스와 온라인 거래 플랫폼에 대한 접근을 제공하여, 개인이 웹사이트에서 또는 웹사이트를 통해 이용 가능한 콘텐츠를 보거나 사용할 수 있도록 허용합니다. 이에 대해 변경하거나 확장할 의도는 없습니다. 이러한 접근 및 사용에는 다음 사항이 항상 적용됩니다: (i) 이용 약관, (ii) 위험 경고, (iii) 완전 면책조항. 따라서, 이러한 콘텐츠는 일반적인 정보에 불과합니다. 특히, 온라인 거래 플랫폼의 콘텐츠는 금융 시장에서의 거래에 대한 권유나 제안이 아닙니다. 금융 시장에서의 거래는 자본에 상당한 위험을 수반합니다.
온라인 거래 플랫폼에 공개된 모든 자료는 교육/정보 목적으로만 제공되며, 금융, 투자세 또는 거래 조언 및 권고, 거래 가격 기록, 금융 상품 또는 원치 않는 금융 프로모션의 거래 제안 또는 권유를 포함하지 않으며, 포함해서도 안됩니다.
이 웹사이트에 포함된 모든 의견, 뉴스, 리서치, 분석, 가격, 기타 정보 또는 제3자 사이트에 대한 링크와 같이 XM이 준비하는 콘텐츠 뿐만 아니라, 제3자 콘텐츠는 일반 시장 논평으로서 "현재" 기준으로 제공되며, 투자 조언으로 여겨지지 않습니다. 모든 콘텐츠가 투자 리서치로 해석되는 경우, 투자 리서치의 독립성을 촉진하기 위해 고안된 법적 요건에 따라 콘텐츠가 의도되지 않았으며, 준비되지 않았다는 점을 인지하고 동의해야 합니다. 따라서, 관련 법률 및 규정에 따른 마케팅 커뮤니케이션이라고 간주됩니다. 여기에서 접근할 수 있는 앞서 언급한 정보에 대한 비독립 투자 리서치 및 위험 경고 알림을 읽고, 이해하시기 바랍니다.
