Features
Slow-Growth Mode In Latin America
Several of the region’s economies are gasping for breath or treading water—but not going under. Investors have simply discounted the bad news.
Latin America
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Capital Raising & Corporate Finance
Can Colombia Count On A Peace Dividend?
<strong>Trends | Peace Deals</strong><br />
Low oil prices are widening Colombia’s current-account deficit, dampening the confidence of foreign investors and dragging down the economy.
Capital Raising & Corporate Finance
Cuba Learns The Art Of The Deal With Unilever
<strong>Cuba</strong>: News that Anglo-Dutch consumer products company Unilever will return to Cuba to build a $35 million plant in the special development zone at the port of Mariel, about 40 kilometers west of Havana, is one of the clearest signs yet that the communist nation is taking a more pragmatic approach to foreign direct investment.
Economics, Policy & Regulation
Shrinking Lifeline For Trinidad and Tobago
The republic of Trinidad and Tobago girds for austerity as oil brings in less foreign exchange.
Economics, Policy & Regulation
Steady Interest Rates Help Brazil’s New Finance Minister
<strong>Brazil: </strong>The Banco Central do Brasil gave new Finance minister Nelson Barbosa a bit of help on January 20, when it decided to hold the short-term interest rate, the Selic, to 14.25%.
Capital Raising & Corporate Finance
Argentina’s New Finance Minister Wrestles With Peso
Argentina
The appointment of Alfonso Prat-Gay as Argentina’s new Finance minister was a clear sign to international investors that president Mauricio Macri, sworn in December 10, was serious about unraveling the populist policies of the previous government.
Capital Raising & Corporate Finance
Brazil Reeling After Another Junk Rating
The axe fell on Brazil heading into 2016 as it suffered a downgrade to junk status by Fitch Ratings, heightening the air of crisis as the beleaguered nation grapples with political turmoil and recession.
Capital Raising & Corporate Finance
BTG Looks To Restore Credibility By Selling Off Assets
Corporate Governance | Management
Selling the assets could improve BTG’s net worth by 20 billion reais ($5 billion).
Emerging & Frontier Markets
Eyes On New Legislature For Venezuela
The opposition party in Venezuela won the majority of seats in the National Assembly (Venezuela’s parliament) in national elections early in December.
Economics, Policy & Regulation
Chile Is Set To Join Roster Of Debtor Nations
Hit by a sharp decline in the price of copper, Chile is putting the brakes on public spending with a 2016 budget that aims at keeping costs under control.
Capital Raising & Corporate Finance
Eye On Trade
José Antonio Ocampo Gaviria, professor at Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs, says the slowing of international trade since the financial crisis is a major threat to the world economy.
News
Future Growth In Ecuador Linked To “Knowledge” Economy
In the province of Imbabura in northern Ecuador, approximately a two-and-a-half-hour drive from the capital, Quito, and close to the border of Colombia, sits Yachay, the country’s first planned “city of knowledge.”