Mexico cut its growth forecast for this year, a week after a similar move by the central bank, citing declines in oil output and U.S. industrial production. Gross domestic product will expand 2 percent to 2.8 percent this year, down from a May forecast of 2.2 percent to 3.2 percent, Deputy Finance Minister Fernando Aportela said at a news conference Thursday in Mexico City. The economy grew 2.2 percent in the second quarter from a year earlier, the national statistics institute said Thursday. While that beat the 2.1 percent median forecast of 24 economists surveyed by Bloomberg, it’s down from 2.6 percent in the previous quarter and at the low end of the full-year range the government projected three months ago. “There are several factors that have limited growth,” Aportela told reporters at a Mexico City event on Thursday. “One of them is what we saw in the U.S., […]