{"id":15377,"date":"2018-04-10T16:16:05","date_gmt":"2018-04-10T21:16:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nrgibroker.com\/?p=15377"},"modified":"2018-04-10T17:18:00","modified_gmt":"2018-04-10T22:18:00","slug":"mexicos-economy-minister-says-odds-of-a-nafta-deal-in-principle-at-80","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nrgibroker.com\/en\/mexicos-economy-minister-says-odds-of-a-nafta-deal-in-principle-at-80\/","title":{"rendered":"Mexico&#8217;s economy minister says odds of a Nafta deal &#8216;in principle&#8217; at 80%"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.marketwatch.com\/story\/mexicos-economy-minister-says-odds-of-a-nafta-deal-in-principle-at-80-2018-04-09\">From: Market Watch \/ 9 April<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Mexico&#8217;s economy minister, Ildefonso Guajardo, said in a TV interview on Monday that the likelihood of signing a renegotiated pact &#8216;in principle&#8217; on the North American Free Trade Agreement is about 80%. Guajardo, however, said he didn&#8217;t expect a Nafta deal would be struck this week, but would likely be signed around the first week of May. He speculated that the U.S. and would be inclined to complete a deal ahead of coming midterm elections. Nafta negotiators are currently meeting in Washington, D.C., for their eighth round of talks. Last week, President Donald Trump said he was looking for a deal in principle at the Summit of the Americas in Lima, Peru, next week. The Mexican peso\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.marketwatch.com\/investing\/currency\/usdmxn?mod=MW_story_quote\"><strong>USDMXN,\u00a0<\/strong><strong>-0.3324%<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0which started Monday&#8217;s session weaker, climbed 0.2% higher versus the dollar, with one buck fetching 18.2450 pesos. The iShares MSCI Mexico ETF\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.marketwatch.com\/investing\/fund\/eww?mod=MW_story_quote\"><strong>EWW,\u00a0<\/strong><strong>+1.29%<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0was up 0.5% in response.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.marketwatch.com\/story\/mexicos-economy-minister-says-odds-of-a-nafta-deal-in-principle-at-80-2018-04-09\">From: Market Watch \/ 9 April<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-15378 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/nrgibroker.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/EST13133484c784908_0-300x189.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"189\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nrgibroker.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/EST13133484c784908_0-300x189.jpg 300w, https:\/\/nrgibroker.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/EST13133484c784908_0-768x484.jpg 768w, https:\/\/nrgibroker.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/EST13133484c784908_0-705x444.jpg 705w, https:\/\/nrgibroker.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/EST13133484c784908_0-450x283.jpg 450w, https:\/\/nrgibroker.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/EST13133484c784908_0.jpg 980w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From: Market Watch \/ 9 April Mexico&#8217;s economy minister, Ildefonso Guajardo, said in a TV interview on Monday that the likelihood of signing a renegotiated pact &#8216;in principle&#8217; on the North American Free Trade Agreement is about 80%. Guajardo, however, said he didn&#8217;t expect a Nafta deal would be struck this week, but would likely [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":15378,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1516,1017],"tags":[353,424,684,199],"class_list":["post-15377","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-economy","category-news","tag-economia-mexicana","tag-economy","tag-estados-unidos","tag-mexico"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nrgibroker.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15377","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nrgibroker.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nrgibroker.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nrgibroker.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nrgibroker.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15377"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nrgibroker.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15377\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nrgibroker.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15378"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nrgibroker.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15377"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nrgibroker.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15377"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nrgibroker.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15377"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}