CEI Citicorp Holdings’ Handley still hooking hard in tough scrums
Category: 1997
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Informed Investors
Informed InvestorsWhen CompaÒÌa de Telecomunicaciones de Chile SA (CTC) became the first Latin American company to post an equity listing on the New York Stock Exchange in July 1990, the […]
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One Step Back, Two Steps Forward
A Newsweek correspondent years ago once described Brazil as having a rather “willy nilly” character. The nation’s status at any particular moment may be precisely what is willed by elected […]
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Review of 1997
Review of 1997Economic reforms in Argentina over the past few years have led to fast economic growth-a process that was interrupted in 1995 by a crisis in confidence fueled by […]
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Riding out the storm
It seems as if Brazil’s capital markets are fending off attacks on all fronts these days. A recession at home and investor aversion to risky emerging markets are taking their […]
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Rocky Rebound
Yearly inflation rates of 80%, the currency down in value to 2.5 or even lower against the dollar, negative GDP, and noncompliance with International Monetary Fund goals. Such were the […]
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A revived economy is still a long way ahead, despite renewed optimism among Colombians,
There really isn’t much difference between the Colombia of Ernesto Samper’s government and the Colombia of Andres Pastrana’s government-except, of course, for credibility and hope.It seems, at least, that hope […]
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Vaulting the Bluffs
Brazil’s big banks have developed an extraordinary ability to thrive in almost any environment.They have lived through inflation, government debt defaults and over half a dozen new currencies in the […]
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Arminio Fraga Interview
When Arminio Fraga speaks, people listen. Or so say those who have watched him, over the last six months, oversee a complete turnaround in Brazil’s monetary policy. After the six- […]
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Visible Hand
Francisco da Costa e Silva, chairman of Brazil’s capital markets watchdog the Comissão de Valores Mobiliarios (CVM), has established himself as a leading promoter of regulatory changes and a modernizer […]