Today, June 16, the dollar opened trading with an interbank exchange rate of 17.20 Mexican pesos per greenback, marking a 0.06 percent decline, according to Bloomberg data. The Mexican peso appreciated yesterday, bolstered by the dollar’s global weakness after a preliminary agreement to end the conflict between the United States and Iran lowered oil prices […]
Mexico’s 500 Most Important Companies 2026: A Thermometer of the National Economy
One of the most anticipated publications of the year in the business world arrives this June: the 2026 edition of “Las 500 empresas más importantes de México” (The 500 Most Important Companies in Mexico). Compiled by Expansión since 1975, this ranking has become an essential benchmark for understanding who drives the national economy. More than […]
Dollar exchange rate in Mexico today, Friday, May 15: prices updated minute by minute
The US dollar opened trading this Friday, May 15, 2026, at an exchange rate of 17.23 Mexican pesos, according to information from the Bank of Mexico at the close of trading on the previous business day. The official exchange rate is determined by the Bank of Mexico based on an average of wholesale exchange market […]
Puebla consolidates economic presence with Mexico-Canada Trade Mission
The state government’s participation in the Mexican Trade Mission to Canada strengthened its international presence by promoting investment projects and collaboration opportunities in strategic sectors such as electromobility, energy, pharmaceuticals, and construction, with the goal of expanding the state’s economic and technological development. The meeting was led by the Secretary of Economy of the Mexican […]
BBVA sees Mexico as one of the 10 largest economies in the world, but there is a problem that continues to hold it back.
Mexico faces an opportunity that rarely appears so clearly: to become one of the world’s 10 largest economies by leveraging nearshoring, greater integration with North American trade, and the growing interest of foreign companies in investing in the country. However, it’s not all rosy, as BBVA Mexico’s message was far from triumphalist. The bank warned […]
The pharaonic story of the Nichupté Bridge: from a 2006 promise to a multi-million dollar waste
The idea for what is now called the Nichupté Bridge didn’t originate in an office at Los Pinos (the presidential residence) or in a rushed bidding process by the current administration. It emerged in 2006, when a group of businesspeople presented the project to the then-mayor of Benito Juárez, Francisco Alor Quesada—who had been in […]
Latest US inflation data is “bad news”: Chicago Fed
Chicago Federal Reserve President Austan Goolsbee said Saturday that last week’s inflation data was “bad news” for the U.S. central bank, implying that the institution must proceed cautiously with interest rate cuts until inflation begins to ease. “We need to get some assurance that we’re going to get back to the 2 percent inflation target,” […]
Inegi highlights that Nayarit, Oaxaca and Hidalgo were the states with the greatest economic progress in 2025
The National Institute of Statistics and Geography (INEGI) reported in a bulletin that Nayarit, Oaxaca, and Hidalgo experienced the largest increases in economic activity during the fourth quarter of 2025, according to figures from the Quarterly Indicator of State Economic Activity (ITAEE), which measures the economic performance of the states. At the close of 2025, […]