While the biggest threat facing Mexico, and its unpopular president Enrique Pena Nieto, in the past month has been President Trump’s insistence on building a “Massive Wall”, which Mexico would pay for, as well as Trump’s threats of renegotiating NAFTA, today we got a fresh reminder that America’s neighbor to the south has another looming problem: a rapidly deteriorating economy coupled with surging inflation on the back of the recent 20% price hike for gasoline, which culminated in a record crash in Mexican consumer confidence.
While the whisper number was 84.9, and the survey said 83.5 the actual print came in at an unprecedented 68.5 (69.3 seasonally adjusted) the lowest print on record. Consumer confidence posted a broad based and extraordinarily large 17.9% mom decline in January (-25.7% yoy), and has now declined in 7 of the past 8 months. The aggregate consumer confidence is at the weakest level since the series began to be reported in April 2011.
This post was published at Zero Hedge on Feb 3, 2017.
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