Mensajepor Patrick » Jue Ago 19, 2010 12:46 pm
Extracto del informe de un banco internacional muy importante.
We revise our forecasts for 2010 GDP to 7.8% (from 5.5%) and for 2011 GDP to 4.5% (from 4.0%)
* Short-term FX stability offers tactical opportunities to sell USD-ARS to secure high carry
* There is still value in the GDP warrants; we favor the USD warrants
We are raising our 2010 and 2011 GDP forecasts for Argentina. We now forecast 2010 GDP growth at 7.8% (up from 5.5% previously) and 2011 GDP at 4.5% (up from 4.0% previously). Our revisions are essentially an adjustment to better-than-expected growth driver performance and to revisions in activity statistics. Specifically, our revisions for higher growth are based on:
Upward revisions to 2009 and 1Q10 activity according to private sector estimates
Upward revisions to our Brazil GDP forecast to 7.2% from 6.5%
Higher-than-expected soy prices, increasing 9% since the start of July.
Marginally higher fiscal and monetary expansion
Nevertheless, we believe that most of the drivers of strong growth are about to decelerate. In addition, we believe that as we get closer to the October 2011 presidential elections, Argentines could resort to precautionary consumer, saver and investment behavior. Therefore, our growth forecasts from 2H10 onwards are only slightly increased (see table and chart in next page)
Our inflation forecast remains at 27% for 2010 and 22% for 2011.
We are also changing our short-term exchange rate forecasts to 3.97 by end 3Q10 and 4.10 by end-2010 to reflect stronger trade and financial inflows brought by record high soy prices and positive capital flows following the debt-exchange, respectively - and aggressive FX anchoring from monetary authorities. We lower our end-2011 forecast to 4.30.
Saludos
Patrick