LatinNews Daily - 31 October 2025

*Mexico’s national statistics institute has released preliminary figures on the country’s economic activity in the third quarter of 2025, estimating contractions of 0.3% in both yearly and quarterly terms. This follows two consecutive quarters of GDP growth, following quarterly growth of 0.6% in Q2 and of 0.3% in Q1 2025, according to the latest figures. In Q3 2025, activities in the primary sector (agriculture) were up 3.2% in quarterly terms and those in the tertiary sector (services) were up 0.1%, while those in the secondary sector (manufacturing) dropped by 1.5%. In yearly terms, primary activities were up 3.0% and tertiary activities were up 0.9% while secondary activities fell by 2.9%.