When pundits and participants in the international financial community get together these days the encounters have the tone one imagines in the meetings of the US’s Republican Party, which in […]
Category: 1998
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Corporate Crisis?
Christmas dinner is going to bring joy to Brazil’s Perdigao this year. Despite the recession that is expected to hit the country in full force in the coming months, the […]
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Untapped Potential
Predictions abound about the explosion of e-commerce in Latin America and the innovative ways the Internet is expected to dramatically alter the way businesses interact with consumers. But while everyone […]
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Volatile Interest Rates
The region’s interest rate environment has been particularly volatile this year, as Latin governments responded to speculative attacks on their currencies and tried to turn the tide on massive investor […]
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Hurdling Mexican Bank Barriers
The proposed easing of restrictions on foreign ownership in Mexico’s banking sector reported by LatinFinance in May (Right Place, Right Time, Issue 97) appeared to be tailor-made for Banca Serfin […]
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In Search of Relief
Aside from the millions of dollars in relief aid pouring into the hurricane-devastated region of Central America, economists still estimate that it will take years-and maybe […]
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Informal Benefits
In keeping with its reputation as a land of innumerable paradoxes, Mexico usually produces a silver lining to every kind of cloud-even when those clouds are laden with cement. In […]
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Local Opportunities
With the international markets closed to Brazilian companies, well-known firms are turning to the internal markets to either roll over external positions or fatten their coffers in preparation for tough […]