Weak growth, low oil prices and difficulties in making promised spending cuts all threaten Mexico's push for a budget surplus next year as credit rating agencies consider downgrading its debt.
After running primary budget deficits since 2009, Mexico last Thursday pledged to turn a projected primary deficit of 0.4 percent of gross domestic product into a surplus of 0.4 percent of GDP next year.
Standard & Poor's and Moody's put Mexico's credit outlook on negative this year, flagging concerns that weak growth could keep pushing up debt after a collapse in oil prices hit Mexico . . .
