09/07/16 Bloomberg
Banks including Goldman Sachs Group Inc. and Bank of America Corp. say Mexico can do more to shore up its finances.
Mexico Finance Minister Luis Videgaray is scheduled to go to the lower house of Congress on Thursday to present the nation’s 2017 budget proposal. The plan may call for a so-called primary budget surplus that’s equal to about 0.2 percent of gross domestic product, based on a preliminary estimate from the government earlier this year. But Mexico may be more ambitious, says Goldman Sachs’s Alberto Ramos.
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Protectionist trends in leading economies are threatening the world’s already laggardly growth potential, the head of Mexico’s 
With all the Trump-fuelled talk of trade protectionism in the U.S. presidential election, Premier Kathleen Wynne is headed to Mexico to remind officials there that Ontario is wide open for business.
The disassociation between consumer confidence and consumer spending habits over the past two years has been one of the Mexico’s most interesting economic puzzles. The economy remains stuck in a three-year slowdown (GDP contracted in the second quarter by a sequential 0.3%), tighter fiscal and monetary conditions are in place as a result of low oil prices and a weak peso, and the string of corruption and impunity scandals surrounding the political class (and particularly the ruling PRI) appears to have no end in sight, even despite the passage of anti-corruption legislation.
As part of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), Mexico and the United States gradually eliminated all tariffs and quotas governing bilateral agricultural trade during a 14-year transition period from January 1, 1994, to January 1, 2008. The same period saw growing cooperation between the two countries on sanitary, phytosanitary, and other regulatory issues affecting the agricultural and processed food sectors—a process that continues to this day. Together, this sweeping trade liberalization and ongoing regulatory cooperation made possible a dramatic increase in U.S.-Mexico agricultural trade.
PHOENIX — U.S. Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) told a crowd on Tuesday that he would continue to support free trade agreements such as NAFTA should he be re-elected.