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Colombia's fiscal outlook is in focus after Fitch Ratings warned that a failure to adopt stronger deficit-reduction measures could place new pressure on the country's credit rating.
The agency's framing carries a conditional that sharpens the read: deficits are likely to exceed prior forecasts even if the government achieves its 2.2% of GDP consolidation target.
The next confirmable development is any official signal that Bogota is moving beyond that figure. That conditional is the part worth sitting with. Fitch is not saying the government will miss its target.
It is saying that hitting the target may still leave the deficit wider than previously projected.
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