With Brazil’s election season heating up, Brazilians will have a hard time focusing on anything else for the next two months.
In October the country will elect not only a president and vice president, but 27 governors, representatives for all state assemblies and almost all of Congress. In total 27,415 people are registered to run for office this year.
Still, the weekly report from the central bank on the financial market projections for the economy will come out on Monday, and FGV will have its take on the economy with the GDP monitor for June. Monday is also a holiday in Colombia and Argentina.
In Brazil on Tuesday, the FGV Foundation releases its research on the manufacturing sector in August. In Argentina, the government statistics agency INDEC publishes consumer data for June.
On Wednesday, Mexico’s Inegi releases data on the services sector in June.
Thursday is time to get an update on how Brazilians are feeling about the economy, with FGV’s look at consumer confidence in August, and statistics office IBGE set to publish inflation numbers with the mid-month IPCA for August.
Mexico also releases mid-month inflation data, as well as figures on the construction sector’s performance in June. Argentina’s INDEC will publish its June monthly economic activity estimate (EMAE).
Closing out the week on Friday, Chile will release a flurry of data with INE’s price indexes in construction (IPMIC), agriculture (IPAG) and manufacturing (IPP). In Mexico, Inegi shares GDP data for the second quarter.