Mexican Trade and USD Debt - A Few Charts

Tomorrow is a holiday, so why not spend time looking through charts around 9pm?

I've been intrigued by global trade not recouping losses or just stabilizing, with little growth.

I'll just leave these charts on the Mexican February trade numbers. I am not analyzing the details either.

But I will say that I don't know where all those Chinese Exports went in Jan-Feb, because no other country I looked, that could be big enough to cause such a massive shift in Chinese Exports, showed any massive growth.

Now look at the USD against many currencies, from countries with beautiful Balance of Payments, especially those with positive current accounts helped by Net-Exports.
List who these are.
And tell me EM is not slowing down materially.
Now tell me what happens to balance sheets of countries/companies that issue in USD when the US Dollar goes up...

Oh.. cool.

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