Business friendly candidate Jair Bolsonaro looks on course to win the second round of Brazil’s presidential election later this month, but recent noises from the campaign trail have called into question his commitment to market-friendly reforms. Elsewhere, incoming data from Argentina show that policymakers have ramped up austerity. This will be increasingly difficult to maintain ahead of next year’s elections.
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