Category: Argentina

Argentina may be falling to pieces, but the country’s best companies have learned from the decades of experience that with robust balance sheets, international expansion and steady cashflows, they can do more than just survive. Unfortunately, they are a minority.

Fund manager Mohamed A. El-Erian contemplates the future of emerging market assets in the aftermath of Argentina’s crisis. Despite the gloomy outlook for the region, tighter fiscal policies, more transparent and market-compatible rules, improvements in debt management and greater international reserves now cushion most Latin American economies.

Harvard’s Jeffrey Sachs argues that Argentina’s brush with economic collapse should force everyone involved with Latin America to reconsider the merits of free market orthodoxy.

Has Argentina’s massive debt exchange enabled it to avoid a debt payments crisis? Or will its escalating interest rates wreck the sovereign’s ability to remain solvent?

The Passing of an Industrialist One of Argentina’s leading industrialists, Agostino Rocca, died in an airplane crash in April. Rocca was president and chief executive officer of Buenos Aires-based Grupo […]

Argentina’s $20 billion debt exchange will give the country time to put its fiscal house in order. But the swap won’t address the challenge of reviving long-term economic growth.

Latin debt issuers and their bankers are looking for a definitive resolution to Argentina’s financial straits. but they are still continuing to put bonds into the market at a healthy pace.

Latin lending has held up well, in spite of turbulence in Argentina and uncertainty over the direction of the US economy. The market is becoming more sophisticated, creating room for innovative deals.