January inflation in Latin America: more than 5% in Argentina and 0.5% in Mexico and Brazil

Manuel López Obrador, Lula da Silva and Alberto Fernández
Manuel López Obrador, Lula da Silva and Alberto Fernández

La inflation peako en punta en enero en la Argentina en comprásiona con otros dos grandes países latinoamericanos.

Los índices que miden la suba de los precios en forma semanal y bicentenal se ubicaron entre el 5 y el 6 por ciento en este primer mes del 2023.

En cambio, los resultados de la primera quincena de Brasil y México marked an inflation of 0.46 and 0.55 percent, respectively.

Santiago Manoukian de Ecolatina indicó a Infobae que “el relevamiento de nuestro IPC GBA Ecolatina marcó un 6.2% mensual” en la primera quincena del mes.

La inflation bicentenal según Ecolatina
La inflation bicentenal según Ecolatina

“Para el dato de enero estamos esperando una inflation medida por el Indec.” en la zona del 5.5% y para todo el año en principio sobre el piso elevado que dejó el cuarto trimester se sumará el desperar del precio de la carne vacuna”, he indicated.

“We will see that the moderación de los datos a partir del acuerdo de precios cerrados recentente y sin shocks como el ocurrido el año pasta en Ukraina, o eventos como la resignation de Guzmán, perletarín de alguna manera ir controlando la brecha cambiaria”, he explained.

In this scenario, “the expectations of inflation will be moderated in the margin and, as a result, we are seeing a slow tendency towards the moderation of the nominal in the next few months, to reach inflation in the year of 90 to 100 percent” , concluyó, frente al prognostic del 60% planteado por el Gobierno.

En tanto, according to Alphacast, las variaciones semanales de enero fueron del 1.23%, 1.81%, 0.71% y 1.67 por cento; para el mes se espera cerca del 5,5 por ciento.

Por su parte, el estudio ECO GO indicated that “the relief corresponding to the third week of the month registered a variation of 1.7% in the food prices with respect to the previous week”.

“Con este dato y considerando una proyección de variación semanal del 1% para la ultima semana del mes, la inflation de aliments consumidos en el hogar en enero treparía a 4.9% mensual”, explained the informe de la consultora que fundó Marina Dal Poggetto.

ECO GO January inflation register
ECO GO January inflation register

In this way, according to EcoGo, “the January inflation data will be 5.6%, 0.2 percentage points higher than expected last week”.

“Esto se debe principamente a un registro de la inflation en alimentos levemente mayor al estimado. The regulated products boosted the general indicator of the month, with increases in prepayments (6.5%), fuel (2%), and tariffs for gas, electricity and water (14.1%, 19.6% and 20, 1% respectively), domestic service (6.5%), collective and train fares in AMBA (between 20% and 70% depending on the service), among others”, detailed EcoGo.

En tanto, in México the official IPC registered a rate of 0.46% in the first quarter of January (in comparison to 0.39% a year ago and compared to a median of 0.27% in the five-year period). The figure was placed above market expectations by 0.39%, according to Bloomberg.

“The underlying inflation also surprised the rise (0.44% compared to our forecast and the market consensus of 0.32%), compared to 0.34% a year ago and the five-year median of 0.20%”, precisó el banco Itaú.

In annual terms, general Mexican inflation rose to 7.94% in the first half of January (7.86% in the second half of December), while the underlying inflation was 8.45% ( el 8.34%).

The rise in inflation in Mexico in the first quarter was 0.46% MARCO POLO GUZMÁN/CUARTOSCURO.COM
The rise in inflation in Mexico in the first quarter was 0.46% MARCO POLO GUZMÁN/CUARTOSCURO.COM

Meanwhile, in Brazil, the official inflation of the first quarter of this month (IPCA-15) increased by 0.55% in January, exceeding market expectations (0.51%). In 12 months, the IPCA-15 reaches 5.9%, the same level as it will be in 2022.

“The main surprise of the rise was the increase in services, the increase in air fares (+7 basic points) and the combination of telephone, Internet and cable television (+3 basic points)”.

Inflation in Brazil was 0.5% in the first half of January Reuters
Inflation in Brazil was 0.5% in the first half of January Reuters

“La lectura del IPCA-15 de enero fue superior a la prevista y aportó un bias alza alza al IPCA. El sesgo al alza de la previsión anual, actualmente en el el 5.8%, es de approximately 0.15 puntos centuales”, indicated el banco Itaú.

Para 2023, se prevé una inflation superior al 200% en Venezuela, del 99.7% en la Argentina según el REM -aunque el Gobierno estimó 60%-; luego, siguen 7.3% in Uruguay, 6.4% in Colombia, 5.1% in Chile, 4.9% in Brazil and Mexico, 4.6% in Paraguay, 3.9% in Peru, 2.6 % in Bolivia and 2.1% in Ecuador, according to Latinfocus. Así, aunque el presidente Alberto Fernández Predique que todos los países de la region deben tomar el mismo rumbo, al menos en materia inflationaria Venezuela y la Argentina van para un lado y el rest para el otro.

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