Saturday, November 30, 2024

Mexico Economic Growth Stalls

From the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas Mexico’s economic output contracted in July as the monthly gross domestic product (GDP) measure declined. Before release of the most recent data, the consensus 2017 GDP growth forecast had been revised higher, to 2.2 percent in August from 2 percent in July. Other data were mixed as employment growth remained strong and retail

Russia Says it will Dominate Global LNG

From Gulf-Times Russia plans to take on the US, Australia and other major suppliers in the race to dominate liquefied natural gas production. The nation has enough planned LNG projects to challenge the world’s top producers as it boosts annual output sevenfold by 2035, Energy Minister Alexander Novak said by email. And that doesn’t even include projects still under consideration,