ECLAC: Venezuela Improves Growth Forecast for 2025 Despite Regional Slowdown  

In its Economic Survey of Latin America and the Caribbean 2025, ECLAC warns that the region is going through a phase of lower dynamism following the rebound seen at the beginning of 2024. Regional GDP growth will decline from 2.3% in 2024 to 2.2% this year, confirming a decade of low growth with an average expansion of just 1.2% between 2016 and 2025—even lower than that recorded in the 1980s.

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OPEC+ to Boost Output in September Despite Demand Uncertainty

The Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries and its allies (OPEC+), headed by Saudi Arabia and Russia, approved a new crude production increase of 547,000 barrels per day (bpd) this Sunday, effective September. With this move, the coalition finalizes the reversal of the voluntary cuts of 2.2 million barrels per day (mbd) implemented in 2023, completing the process in half the time initially planned. 

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