The Federal Reserve and the ECB are in very different positions: the former has more room to ease policy and it is also closer to its policy targets. The ECB has limited remaining policy leeway but is confronted with an inflation shortfall versus its aim and a risk that this gap would increase, rather than narrow. These differences have led to diverging approaches in the conduct of and communication about monetary policy. The Fed is data-dependent and, except for the projections of the FOMC members, offers no guidance. The ECB is agnostic about the data and builds its communication around state-dependent forward guidance: policy tightening will be solely conditioned by meeting its target
After recording a 1.2% y/y growth in Q1, real Mexican GDP contracted by 0.7% y/y in Q2. The lack of dynamism of US activity, weighing on the Mexican export sector and the significant slowdown in both public and private investments, due to deteriorating business and investment sentiments, are the two key factors explaining the slowdown. For the same reasons, the risks remain tilted to the downside for the coming quarters.