As of August 2019, the balance of the country's public external debt reached $6,116 million, 3% higher than the amount reported at the close of 2018.
Between December 2018 and August 2019, the ratio of debt to GDP also increased, from 45.4% to 49.3%, according to the most recent report by the Nicaraguan Foundation for Economic and Social Development (Funides).
Construction activity in Panama continues to decline, as in the first ten months of the year were reported $1,016 million in new construction, additions and repairs, 9% less than in the same period in 2018.
The most recent report of the General Comptroller of the Republic, explains that in October of this year the cost of new constructions, additions and repairs totaled $131 million, which is identical to the amount reported in the same month of 2018.
Between 2017 and 2018, the number of cattle rose from 1.49 million to 1.58 million, an increase of 5%.
The National Agricultural Survey (ENA) prepared by the National Institute of Statistics and Censuses, specifies that of the total number of cattle counted in 2018, 61.8% corresponds to meat production, 15.8% was allocated to milk production, 22.2% dual purpose and finally, working animals represent 0.2%.
In the first nine months of the year, the Volume Index of Economic Activity and the sales indicator of FUSADES reported positive variations, however, they are lower compared to what was recorded in the same period of 2018.
According to the "Economic Situation Report up to November 2019", prepared by the Salvadoran Foundation for Economic and Social Development (FUSADES), the Salvadoran economy has experienced a tendency to lose dynamism, in the second quarter of 2019, economic activity grew only 1.98%, which is lower than the 2.71% recorded a year ago.
During October, in the Dominican Republic the Monthly Manufacturing Activity Index registered a 15% increase with respect to the previous month, variation that is explained by a greater volume of sales and production.
The Monthly Manufacturing Activity Index (IMAM) of the Association of Industries of the Dominican Republic (AIRD) rose from 54.1 in September 2019 to 62.3 in October, showing an upward trend, after two consecutive months of decline, says the union report.
After the number of new vehicles sold in Panama fell 11% between 2017 and 2018, this year the distributors’ guild estimates that the year-on-year decline could be just 2%.
During September, sales abroad in the Dominican Republic reached $969 million, 6.5% higher than in the same month of 2018.
According to data from the Centro de Exportación e Inversión de Republica Dominicana (CEI-RD), between September 2018 and the same month in 2019, exports increased by $59 million, from $910 million to $969 million.
Up to September 2019, the external debt of the public sector reached $7.285 million, a figure that is $93 million lower than that reported at the close of 2018.
At the end of the third quarter, the external debt of the public sector registered a US$7,285.0 million balance, decreasing 1.3% (US$92.9 million) compared to December 2018. This behavior is derived from a net amortization of US$59.5 million (disbursements received for US$149.5 million lower to the principal payments of US$209.0 million), added to a favorable exchange variation that reduced the balance by US$33.4 million (product of the appreciation of the dollar against other currencies).
Between January and August 2019, approximately 1.5 million tourists arrived in Panama, generating revenues of close to $3,314 million, 1% less than the amount reported in the same period of 2018.
The most recent report of the General Comptroller of the Republic of Panama details that between the first eight months of 2018 and the same period of 2019, the expenditure made by tourists who arrived in the country decreased by $32 million, going from $3.346 million to $3.314 million.
Consistent with the behavior recorded since the beginning of the year, from January to September 2019 Honduran companies sold abroad $3.247 million, 7% less than reported in the same period of 2018.
During September 2019, the Monthly Economic Activity Index reported a 4% year-on-year variation, higher than the registered in August, when it rose to 3.2%.
Among the categories of economic activity that showed a favorable behavior were: commerce, transportation, storage and communications, financial intermediation, agriculture, public administration, construction, electricity and water, exploitation of mines and quarries, and domestic services, informed the General Comptroller of the Republic.
In the third quarter of the year, the Business Climate Index dropped 8% with respect to what was reported from April to June 2019.
The Business Climate Index fell from 61.7 in April-June 2019 to 57.3 in July-September 2019. This decrease was because of a drop in the balance of opinion of businessmen on the Dominican economy, the international, the branch and the climate for investment, explains the report of the Association of Industries of the Dominican Republic (AIRD).
In the first nine months of the year, trading volume totaled $8.318 million, 20% lower than the same period in 2018.
From the NCB report:
In the third quarter of 2019, the volume of foreign exchange operations (purchases + sales) in the foreign exchange market totaled 2,671.7 million dollars, of which 1,361.1 million dollars corresponded to purchase operations of intermediary agents1 (US$1,401.1 million in the previous quarter), and 1,310.6 million dollars in sales (US$1,296.4 million in the previous quarter). Thus, the net result of operations in the exchange market was net purchases of 50.5 million dollars in the third quarter, as a result of a greater demand for cordobas by the economy.
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