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Costa Rica

Last EMBI
128 bp
2026-09-02
TFT +3d
124 bp
origin 2026-09-02 → +3d 2026-09-07 · band 121–128 bp
DAG valuation
Rich
Costa Rica EMBI looks rich at 128 bp vs fair 147 bp (-19 bp tight).
Forecast News Valuation DAG

TFT forecast

Segment model: High Yield. Point is the +3 business-day median level. Drivers are encoder+decoder variable selection — not news clusters.

Costa Rica TFT forecast
Forecast Drivers
Temporal attention (encoder −30d → −1d)
TypeAttentionSummary
Technicals48.1%own-spread momentum (tightening) · level path / mean-reversion setup
Global Macro39.5%FOMC calendar · global EMBI tighter
Local Macro4.2%local CB calendar · FX relief / firmer
Sentiment8.3%news volume · global sentiment

Attention = country-latest encoder+decoder variable selection (rolled up). Summary = top TFT features for that group + recent panel moves. Themes/clusters are separate (do not feed the TFT).

News themes

Rolling BERTopic clusters for desk context. They do not feed the TFT.

Country theme dynamics

785 articles · 5 clusters · 3 dropped

Top themes by share · green=accel · red=decel · blue=emerging · click a theme for the cluster note

ThemeToneShare (%)Share (z)n (prior → recent)
Chaves' judicial reforms spark constitutional court challenge-2.116.9%+0.00797 → 133
Central Bank updates mobile payment system+1.510.7%+937579617834.390 → 84
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Valuation DAG

rich

Costa Rica EMBI looks rich at 128 bp vs fair 147 bp (-19 bp tight).

  • The S&P 500 rose, which put downward pressure on the local policy–Fed funds gap, which typically widens the EMBI spread. That does not appear to have been incorporated into the current spread.
EMBI vs macro fair value
Current EMBI128 bp
Macro fair value147 bp
Gap (current − fair)-19 bp (-0.8σ)

4 monthly print(s) may not yet have been tradable at the last EMBI date.

Costa Rica EMBI monthly DAG train 2012-07-31→2025-02-28 (152) · holdout 2025-03-31→2026-09-30 (19) Global macro ToT / activity Fiscal Monetary Trade / FX EMBI / equity -0.60 +0.59 -0.58 -0.58 +0.52 -0.52 +0.48 USD broad Fed funds S&P 500 US 10Y vix copper oil commodity ToT ToT gap primary balance nominal deficit Fed gap policy rate fx REER REER gap EMBI Costa Rica green + · red − · bold = story chain
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