Category: Equity

No one covering the Latin American markets could escape the impact of Argentina’s financial crisis that has dragged on for almost a year. Stock markets tumbled, currencies wavered, confidence crumbled. […]

Mexico’s first privatization in years is an IPO for a company that manages Cancún’s transportation gateway, in a deal that gives minority investors a new corporate role.

Private equity funds haven’t panned out in the region the way their early champions envisioned. Financial crises have shaken investor confidence and IPOs are no longer feasible.

New York Stock Exchange (www.nyse.com) Listing Requirements Non-US corporations can list under either alternate listings standards or NYSE domestic listing standards, but must meet all criteria within a given standard. […]

The Buenos Aires Stock Exchange is slipping into obscurity as it becomes increasingly irrelevant. Authorities are tweaking the system but it cannot withstand the forces shifting power to larger markets.

Stock prices in Santiago moved sideways most of the year until the government announced in May that it was relaxing controls on foreign investment, originally set up to insulate Chile […]

LatinStocks.com, the Buenos Aires financial Internet company, has bought the online stock trading service of Hedging-Griffo, a São Paulo brokerage, for an undisclosed amount. Hedging-Griffo’s online trading service will expand […]

The auction of Brazil’s Banespa, already postponed several times, is now set for June 27 on the Rio de Janeiro Stock Exchange. The Brazilian central bank confirmed the date a […]

Stock picks and sector preferences may have varied somewhat from fund manger to fund manager last year, but they shared a number of basic concerns over investing in the region. […]

Yupi.com, the Spanish-language Internet company based in Miami, has scheduled a $105 million initial public share offering on the Nasdaq Stock Market in April. Although the company filed the offering […]