Category: Brazil

Fuel Swaps Chug Ahead Repsol-YPF, the Spanish-owned multinational oil company, plans to link up with Brazil’s national oil company Petrobras in an asset swap estimated at about $750 million. If […]

January brought fresh signs of investor confidence in the largest Latin American debt issuers. Brazil was able to successfully issue a 20-year bond in the US market, the longest tenor […]

Four classes of Brazilian Brady bonds were eligible for the swap. These were par series Z-L bonds due 2024 (par bonds), front-loaded interest reduction with capitalization series L bonds due […]

Brazil joins the growing trend-offering paper that’s more liquid but equally high-yielding.

The movement to untangle Brazil’s central bank from political influence has reemerged after a swift succession of leaders.

In an interview with LatinFinance’s Brazil correspondent Jennifer L. Rich, the president of Brazil’s central bank defends his institution’s strategy for creating economic stability.

Brazil’s investment banks search ways to protect themselves against increasing foreign competition.

Note: All indices are in local currency terms, as are volume figures. Economática is a historical database which covers nearly 1,100 securities in Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Mexico, Peru and […]

After two postponements, the Brazilian government finally succeeded in awarding the third of four “mirror” licenses to compete with Telefonica in providing fixed-line telephone service to the state of São […]

Multimedia companies line up to reap the rewards of Brazil’s newly opened telecom market.