Latin America/Caribbean

The Caribbean’s Dastardly Debt Do-Overs

Jamaica, which was the only MSCI frontier stock market down in January, was further maligned with a sovereign rating default ...

Colombia’s Wafting Wake-Up Scent

Colombian shares lagged regional peers even as lead listing Ecopetrol’s capitalization became the continent’s largest, bumping Brazil’s state oil contender ...

Mexico’s Fair Maiden Fixes

Mexican shares continued their honeymoon with the new Pena Nieto administration as tycoon Carlos Slim moved to list the Sanborns ...

Paraguay’s Distant Hoof Beat Dangle

Paraguay followed Bolivia in a $500 million Latin America Southern Cone sovereign bond appearance after a dozen-year absence, despite recession ...

Argentina’s Flouted Flanking Maneuvers

Argentina shares were at the rear of the MSCI index with a 40 percent blow although bonds moved into the ...

Brazil’s Aggrieved Intervention Instincts

Brazilian stocks were off 10 percent into December as the main Latin American market laggards as Q3 GDP growth came ...

Venezuela’s Succession Speculation Splurge

Venezuelan bonds buttressed their EMBI-leading 40 percent run as President Chavez returned indefinitely to Cuba for further major cancer surgery ...

Latin America’s Awkward Middle Class Angst

As Latin American stock markets mostly ride a wave of consumer optimism, the World Bank completed a comprehensive survey of ...

Bolivia’s Gritty High Altitude Ascent

After almost a century’s absence Bolivia returned to the sovereign bond market with a clamored-for $500 million 10 year issue ...

Argentina’s Nicked Court Jousting Gist

Argentine debt was abandoned, erasing a 20 percent climb, as holdouts seeking full payment from the 2005 swap managed to ...

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