* Mexico’s national statistics institute (Inegi) has released its latest revised economic growth figures, which show that seasonally adjusted GDP grew 0% in the second quarter of 2019 compared to the previous quarter, narrowly avoiding a technical recession, as GDP contracted 0.2% in the first quarter. Year-on-year GDP growth in the second quarter of 2019 was 0.3%. In response to these latest figures, Mexico’s President
Andrés Manuel López Obrador refused to lower his expectations for 2% annual GDP growth this year.
“I remain unchanged, because we are doing very well, very different from what the experts think”, López Obrador stated.
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