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WORLD’S BEST EMERGING MARKET BANKS 2011 IN LATIN AMERICA
Global Finance names the 2011 World’s Best Emerging Market Banks in Latin America NEW YORK, March 24, 2011 Global Finance...
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Emerging & Frontier Markets
Brazil Faces Life After Lula
UPDATE: BRAZIL By Antonio Guerrero Brazil’s new president has already impressed the business community. But can she impress her own party? Brazilian president Dilma Rousseff, a former Marxist guerrilla fighter, has gotten high grades from the nation’s ...
Emerging & Frontier Markets
Colombia: China Evaluates Panama Canal Rival
NEWSMAKERS: COLOMBIA By Antonio Guerrero Santos: In talks with China over 250-mile rail link The first ship crossing the Panama Canal had barely completed its voyage, after the canal opened in 1914, when engineers and politicians began conspiring ...
Emerging & Frontier Markets
Company To Watch: Industrias Bachoco / Mexico
INDUSTRIAS BACHOCO: POULTRY PRODUCER OFFERS PROTECTION IN TROUBLED MARKET By Anita Hawser In times of uncertainty investors often turn to so-called defensive stocks, and Mexico poultry producer Industrias Bachoco is certainly that. Despite other problems that may ...
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Ecuador / US: Record Fine Sparks Fierce Legal Battle
MILESTONES: ECUADOR/UNITED STATES By Antonio Guerrero Still waiting: Chevron's appeal delays payment of its fine When a provincial court in Ecuador in February ordered Chevron to pay an $8.6 billion fine for damaging the rainforest, the ruling intensified an ...
Emerging & Frontier Markets
EM: Bovespa Eyes Other BRIC Markets
EMERGING MARKETS INVESTOR: NEWS By Anita Hawser As the world’s key stock exchanges engage in a flurry of mergers aimed at cutting costs and boosting efficiency, Brazil’s BM&F; Bovespa—the fourth largest exchange operator in the world—is looking to ...
Emerging & Frontier Markets
Mexico’s Uphill Struggle
COUNTRY REPORT: MEXICO By Paula L. Green Safeguards put in place after the Tequila Crisis helped Mexico’s banks ride out the recent global turmoil. Now they’re facing some new challenges. On the spot: Mexico’s president Calderón faces ...
Emerging & Frontier Markets
Mexico: Drug War Dents Economic Recovery
MILESTONES: MEXICO By Antonio Guerrero While Mexico's economy is recovering from its worst recession in 80 years, the spread of drug-related violence is hindering a more dynamic rebound. The drug war has claimed more than 30,000 victims ...
News
LatAm: Growth Brings Hope For Regions Poorest
MILESTONES: LATIN AMERICA By Antonio Guerrero Looking up: Poverty is declining in Latin America Latin America's robust recovery from the global financial crisis is having an impact even on the poorest people in the region, according to a ...
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Argentina: Unease With Profit-Sharing Plan
NEWSMAKERS: ARGENTINA By Antonio Guerrero Kirchner: Hoping to mend fences with the unions A controversial profit-sharing bill submitted to Congress by Argentina's ruling coalition is becoming a proxy fight between the nation's labor and business sectors ahead ...
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Best Derivatives Providers: Latin America
WINNERS: LATIN AMERICA Best Derivatives Provider Société Générale Few other banks can claim as vast and deep a reach across the fragmented continent of Latin America—and across all classes of financial derivatives—as Société Générale. This is partly a function ...
Emerging & Frontier Markets
Emerging Markets Focus: Latin America
COVER STORY: MUTUAL BENEFITS By Antonio Guerrero Latin America is enjoying growing prosperity as the region develops ever-stronger economic ties with Asia. When Chinese President Hu Jintao took his first tour of Latin America in 2004, he ...