Dear Reader, What is normal? Certainly not the year 2020. Normally, at this time of year, we would all hope to be able to pull up our chairs to a […]
Author Archives: Daniel Bases
EDITOR’S LETTER: PICKING UP AND SEEING THROUGH
Dear Reader, If there is one element universally felt across Latin America, and the world, it is that the destructive force of the SARS-CoV-2 virus has exposed the fissures and […]
LETTER: OUT OF COVID’S ASHES
Dear Reader, Poof! In the span of less than six months the world’s economy has been burnt to a crisp by a microscopic killer. Neither the tools we use in […]
MARKET TALK-Q3.2020 OUTLOOK: EQUITY
Interview with Edward EvansPortfolio Manager, Ashmore Investment Management Trying to see through the fog of the COVID-19 pandemic for equity investors is likely just as effective as trying to successfully […]
INVESTMENT INSIGHT: BLUNTING THE IMPACT
Billions in public sector aid and loans have been committed to Latin America and the Caribbean to help the region overcome the COVID-19 pandemic. In the private sector, it prompted […]
LETTER: IT’S NOT EASY BEING GREEN
UPDATE (3/23/20): Dear Readers, Just as we went to press with our first quarter edition of LatinFinance Magazine, the world, not just financial markets, took a dramatic turn in response […]
US & CHINA IN LATAM: DEVELOPMENT OR INFLUENCE FINANCE?
New US agency, the International Development Finance Corporation, seeks to drive investment and Washington’s foreign policy goals in Latin America and counter the growing influence of China’s expanding Belt and […]
EDITOR’S LETTER: THE COVID REBUILD
Dear Reader, I have Nina Simone’s “Feeling Good” cranking in the background and I’ve now set aside T.S. Eliot’s “Wasteland” as I close this edition of LatinFinance and perspectives shift. This isn’t […]
LATINFINANCE CONNECT-PODCAST: TIMING IS EVERYTHING
BNP Paribas’ Florence Pourchet, head of CIB for Latin America, talks about the economic and market conditions in the region, renewable energy investing and the post-COVID climate with LatinFinance Managing […]
Moody’s downgrades Panama to Baa2
Rating agency cites the “unusually large” economic impact of COVID-19 in a one-notch cut for the Central American nation