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Mathieu Cormerais
Mathieu Cormerais
Economist

Mathieu A. Cormerais has been an Economist at BBVA Research's Economic & Financial Forecasting unit since 2019. He holds a degree in Business Administration with a major in Finance from HEC Montréal business school. He also passed the first CFA certification exam. Additionally, he obtained in 2019 a Master's Degree in Quantitative Finance from Universidad Carlos III de Madrid. 

Previously, he worked as a Commercial Banking Analyst at Scotiabank in Canada, where he worked on several analysis and financing projects for corporate clients.

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We expect a GDP growth to slow from 1.9% to 1.1% in 2019 and remain relatively stable at 1.2% in 2020 due to easing monetary policy and slightly fiscal stimulus, which should offset shocks from trade war and industrial sector (autos). Risks are tilted to the downside (hard Brexit and increasing global protectionism)
Global growth continues in a smooth downward path, led by the weakness of the industrial sector and exports due to trade tensions. Persistent low inflation led central banks to reassess their monetary policy stance. We revised downward our world GDP forecast 0.1pp to 3.3% for 2019 and 2020, with strongly downward risks