Category: Argentina

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?

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.

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 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.

Domingo Cavallo, Argentina’s embattled economy minister, has a phrase for the market turbulence that engulfed the country in April: “financial hysteria.” He first used the phrase last November, months before […]

Argentina’s Roller Coaster Ride The outlook for Argentina continued its stormy course in April, going from gloomy to optimistic in a matter of days after the country announced a planned […]