Category: Equity

IPOs were unusually plentiful in Latin America last year. Nearly a dozen companies went public in São Paulo, Santiago and Mexico City – the region’s three main financial centers. But Brazil, […]

The president of Mexico’s Stock Exchange wants to build a one-stop shop for investors. The first customers? Private pension funds.

A record-setting performance by Mexican stocks has triggered a wave of IPOs, but the market is still shrinking.

The Chilean grocery store chain storms into the stock market with an IPO aimed at domestic and international investors and feeds an appetite for Latin shares.

Chile suffered a five-year drought of equity offerings until last November when a bank with some big-name backers became the first Chilean company to launch an IPO since 1997. Corpbanca’s […]

Brazilian Government Sells Its CVRD Stock The Brazilian government raised $1.6 billion from the March sale of 68.5 million shares of Cia Vale do Rio Doce (CVRD), the privatized mining […]

The Mexico City Stock Exchange’s IPyC share price index is the only one to have performed reasonably well over the last five years. It is nearly 70% above where it […]

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.