Mexico Investment Falls a 19th Month as Capex Confidence Cracks
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Mexico Investment Falls a 19th Month as Capex Confidence Cracks
Mexico · Markets Key Facts —The signal: Mexico’s gross fixed investment fell 3.1% from a year earlier in March 2026, extending the decline to 19 consecutive months — one of the longest capex slumps in four decades. —The driver: The contraction is led by private investment, with the national statistics institute INEGI flagging weakness in […] The post Mexico Investment Falls a 19th Month as Capex Confidence Cracks appeared first on The Rio Times.
Although it progressed at a monthly rate in March, between an unfavourable behavior in machinery and equipment, the Gross Fixed Capital Formation (GFCF) or Gross Fixed Investment (IBI) accounted for a first negative quarter at the national level. From January to March last, in Mexico, total Gross Fixed Investment decreased 2.97 percent compared to the same period of 2025 since a breakdown of 5.99 percent in the first three months of the previous…
The investment in Mexico contracted in March and with this it carries continuous annual falls since the transition of government between Andrés Manuel López Obrador and Claudia Sheinbaum.The capital investment contracted in March 3.1% annually, according to the Monthly Indicator of the Gross Formation of Fixed Capital published on Thursday 4 June by the National Institute of Statistics and Geography (Inegi).By component, the expenditure on machi…
Mexico’s gross fixed investment deepened its fall in March, reinforcing concerns about the government’s domestic policies and uncertainty related to tariffs and trade with the United States, the country’s main trading partner. Read more
Both fixed investment and private consumption in Mexico registered their first monthly rebound of the year, after the consecutive falls that weakened economic growth in the start-up of 2026. According to data from Inegi , gross fixed investment rebounded 0.4% compared to February, driven mainly by higher expenditure on machinery and equipment, mainly in the imported component of origin, which grew 3.3% monthly. Despite this advance in capital in…
“These falls are nothing but a lack of confidence in investing in Mexico,” said Gabriela Siller, director of economic analysis at Banco Base
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