The government plans to attract investment through the sale of concessions and assets.
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Tenders Take Center Stage
Late last year, Brazil’s Congress passed a raft of legal reforms that seek to increase corporate financial transparency and strengthen rights for investors.
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Catching Investor Interest
Treasury bonds dominate Brazil’s fixed income market and overshadow the relatively scarce issues by corporations. The government and corporate issuers are trying to address the problem.
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More Than Machu Picchu
Peru needs to encourage tourists to visit places other than the usual Inca attractions.
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The Aura of Antamina
The giant mine is expected to expand the mining sector as much as 20% this year.
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Cleaned Up And Moving On
After getting on top of their problem loans, Peru’s banks are ready to boost lending.
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Phew! Good News at Last!
It’s not often one hears good news from anywhere in Latin America. Moody’s, the credit rating agency, has just changed its outlook on Brazil to positive from stable, an early […]
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Legalize Drugs
Colombia’s President Andrés Pastrana has decided to take on the guerrillas, ending years of fruitless talks. He ordered the air force to bomb the jungle bases of the FARC guerilla […]
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A Cross-Continental Venture
For two consecutive years, Uruguay has looked beyond the dollar, yen and euro markets to nearby Chile for financing. Uruguay issued the first Latin American cross-currency bond in 2000, with […]
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Unlocking Underlying Value
For 30 years, a few giant state-owned companies dominated Brazil’s petrochemical industry, together with a wobbly alliance of local and foreign private-sector companies linked together in a tangle of cross-shareholdings. […]