EMERGING MARKETS – Mexico stocks end at record highs

MEXICO RECORD

Mexico’s benchmark IPC stock index .MXX hit a record
high, up 0.36 percent to 33,142.02 points.

For Mexico, Latin America’s No. 2 economy and one which sends 80 percent of its exports to its northern neighbor, passage of the U.S. healthcare bill eased investor uncertainty on the long-debated legislation.

The U.S. House of Representatives passed the healthcare reform legislation late on Sunday, capping a year of debate
that had frustrated the legislative goals of U.S. President Barack Obama. [ID:nHEALTH]

“This helps a bit from the political perspective that they could pass the reform, but I do not see much more of a push,”
said Carlos Alonso, a trader at brokerage Interacciones in Mexico City.

Mexico Central Bank Governor Agustin Carstens told an annual Inter-American Development Bank meeting in the Caribbean resort of Cancun on Sunday that Mexico’s economy could grow between 4 percent and 5 percent this year.

Economists and the government say exports, consumer demand and credit from banks are all growing faster than expected.

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