All indications are that Mexico will meet its foreign and domestic debt obligations in 1999.
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Playing it Safe
In the current financing drought, bankers and issuers are cautiously reappraising strategies.
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Real Challenges
LatinFinance talks to Alvaro Guerrero-Ferber, the man recently put in charge of Ecuador’s aborted privatization process, and asks what to expect in the year ahead.
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Renewed Relationships
The US Ex-Im bank is once again supporting Brazil’s public sector. But will market insecurities stifle demand for the new financing program?
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Re-regarding Reinsurance
Some of the world’s largest reinsurers are waiting in the wings as Brazil slowly prepares for the privatization of its reinsurance market.
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Telecom Revolution
Global powerhouses like Telefonica are ahead in the Latin Assets race, but converging technologies are changing the rules of the game.
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The Limits of Austerity
Lawmakers approved Mexico’s 1999 budget by the skin of their teeth; but with renewed capital flows far from certain, how long can the economy bear up under increased austerity?
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Three Steps Forward, Two Steps Back
Money management professionals gather to discuss Latin America, as the region takes three steps forward, two steps back.
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US Retail Investors Still Look Overseas
Individual US investors have surpassed institutional investors in the ownership of foreign securities directly or through mutual funds, according to a recent study by Citibank. That’s good news for Latin American stocks since out of the top 30 emerging market ADRs, 17 are from that region. Eight are from Asia, while the remaining five are […]
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What’s Old is New Again
In the scramble to devise lasting solutions for Brazil’s fiscal troubles, Berkeley professor Barry Eichengreen, IDB chief economist Ricardo Hausmann and Jurgen von Hagen of Indiana University have recently reached into the archives and dusted off an idea that they first introduced in 1996 as a solution to the region’s volatility. Using the concept of […]