Monthly Archives: noviembre 2016

Dollar sees best week in a year ahead of inflation expectations

The dollar index, which measures the performance of the US currency against a basket of six major currencies, rose more than 2 percent this week, its best weekly performance since November 2015. The dollar rose to its nine-month high against a basket of major currencies on Friday and posted its best week in a year […]

Positive performance of the Panamanian banking system

Local loans from the Panamanian banking system totaled US $ 47,726 in August 2016, up 9.9% on the previous year, according to the banking sector report of the Superintendency of Banks of Panama (SBP). According to the SBP, the sector that expanded the most according to the destination of the credit was that of companies […]

Positivo desempeño del sistema bancario panameño

Los créditos locales del sistema bancario panameño sumaron a agosto de 2016 US$47,726, un crecimiento del 9.9% superior a lo reportado el año anterior, destaca el informe de actividad bancaria de la Superintendencia de Bancos de Panamá (SBP). De acuerdo a la SBP el sector que mayor expansión reportó según el destino del crédito, fue […]

Uncertainty over surtax

  Today, November 1, the extension that ordered Colombia to mixed sobrearancel applied to imports of footwear and textiles, but in the Panamanian private sector is unknown whether the South American country will apply a new extension of the measure, which materialize would be the third in a year. This, apart from the World Trade […]

Incertidumbre por sobre arancel

Hoy, 1 de noviembre, vence la prórroga que decretó Colombia al sobrearancel mixto aplicado a la importación de calzados y textiles, pero en el sector privado panameño se desconoce si el país sudamericano aplicará una nueva extensión de la medida, que de concretarse sería la tercera en un año. Esto, al margen de que la […]