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Roberto Junguito, Colombia’s new finance minister, has his work cut out for him. He must deal with the country’s budget
deficit, wage fiscal war on the guerillas and grow the
economy.
Trinidad and Tobago has more money than it knows what to do with. A debilitating political deadlock is making dealing
with this abundant liquidity an even greater problem.
Venezuela’s financial services industry is remarkably solid and profitable. But bankers are worried about the effect of unemployment, inflation and recession on their institutions.
MetLife Buys Mexico’s Hidalgo MetLife, the largest insurer in the United States, has agreed to buy Mexico’s state-owned Aseguradora Hidalgo for $965 million in cash, outbidding rival insurers aiming to […]
An interview with Vicente Llatas, executive vice president of CanTV, Venezuela’s biggest telecoms provider.
A Sub-investment grade Mexican railroad company took advantage of an openeing in the US junk bond market to issue $180 million worth of 10-year paper.
PDVSA needs to invest more to keep current energy production at its present level. Rising operating and production costs are making the goal more elusive.
by Brian S. McBeth
There are small signs that Mexico’s competition authorities are beginning to stand up to the rich and powerful bosses who have defied control for years. But the regulators have a hard battle ahead of them.
As Venezuela confronts one of the most turbulent periods in its recent history, the government and its people struggle to hold on to democracy and to a cohesive society. Jonathan Wheatley reports in this supplement.
Jesús Bermúdez, Venezuela’s deputy finance minister, says the government has assembled a coherent plan to attack one of the country’s most serious economic weaknesses, its deteriorating […]
