Peru’s New Government Takes Four Spending Laws to Court
Peru pension laws for teachers and the military head to the Constitutional Court as finance minister Elmer Cuba challenges four...
August 11, 2026Section
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El Niño Turns Central America’s Dry Corridor Into a Hunger Zone
An El Niño food crisis has 3.2 million Guatemalans and up to 2.2 million Hondurans facing acute hunger as drought...
August 11, 2026
Why Banxico’s New Bond Tool Is Testing Its Autonomy
A new secondary-market debt tool tests Banxico autonomy, but the 1994 legal firewall against financing the government still holds, specialists...
August 11, 2026
Indonesia Pitches a Mercosur Trade Deal, With Brazil as the Broker
Indonesia has proposed an Indonesia-Mercosur trade deal, a narrow PTA, and asked Brazil to broker it after broader CEPA talks...
August 11, 2026
Copper Presses Higher on Monday; CPER Gains 0.70%
The copper-tracking fund CPER settled at US$40.18, up 0.70% Monday, as Freeport-McMoRan jumped 1.28% and Southern Copper climbed 1.73%. China's...
August 11, 2026
Mexico Markets: IPC & the Peso — August 11, 2026
Mexico's S&P/BMV IPC slipped 0.75% on Monday, dragged down by Walmex and airport operators, while the peso barely budged against...
August 11, 2026
LatAm Pre-Open — Tuesday, August 11, 2026
Silver's overnight surge and Brazil's mid-month inflation data set a cautious tone for Latin American markets, with the real steady...
August 11, 2026
Colombia Markets: COLCAP & the Peso — August 11, 2026
The COLCAP rose 0.94% to 2,372 as July inflation slowed sharply to 6.03%, boosting bets the central bank may soon...
August 11, 2026
Argentina Markets: Merval & the Peso — August 11, 2026
Argentina's Merval index rose 1.14% on Monday, driven by a 3.7% surge in YPF after record quarterly earnings, even as...
August 11, 2026
Chile Markets: IPSA & the Peso — August 11, 2026
Chile's S&P IPSA ticked 0.11% higher on Aug 10 as lithium giant SQM rose, cushioning a 0.50% slide in the...
August 11, 2026
Brazil Markets: Ibovespa & the Real — August 11, 2026
Brazil's Ibovespa slipped 0.19% as bank stocks declined, but Petrobras jumped 3.3%. The real weakened to 5.11 per dollar in...
August 11, 2026
Brazil’s Financial Morning Call for Tuesday, August 11, 2026
Ibovespa: Brazil's financial morning call: Copom meeting minutes and the IPCA-15 mid-month inflation reading drive the B3 open.
August 11, 2026
Global Economy Briefing — August 11, 2026
Global economy: Wall Street dipped from records as a cooler-than-expected Brazilian inflation print and the Copom minutes focused the view...
August 11, 2026
Latin American Pulse for Tuesday, August 11, 2026
Latin America: Colombia reels from a 7.4 quake that killed over 130 while Argentina’s YPF posts record profits and Chile...
August 11, 2026
Hormuz Shock Sends Crude Surging; Petrobras, YPF Rally
WTI crude tracked by USO surged 6.73% to US$125.92 as Strait of Hormuz disruption deepened. Petrobras, YPF, Ecopetrol shares rallied...
August 11, 2026
Nexa Jumps 5.4% as Zinc Leads Latin America Mining Surge
Nexa Resources surged 5.39% and Buenaventura rose 1.26% on Monday, driven by galvanised steel demand and a weaker dollar, marking...
August 11, 2026
Bitcoin Slips as Oil Jumps — Crypto Wrap Aug 10
Bitcoin fell 1.44% to US$63,911 on Monday as a flare-up in the Strait of Hormuz hit risk assets. We trace...
August 11, 2026
Pharmaceutical Sovereignty Push Gains Pace in Brazil
Brazil's pharmaceutical sovereignty push gains pace with a Fiocruz-MSD HIV deal and Lula's plan, as the US generic-drug tariff looms....
August 11, 2026
Iguatemi Sells Stakes in Five Malls for US$172 Million
Iguatemi sells minority stakes in five malls to TRX Real Estate for R$876.1 million (US$172 million) to recycle capital and...
August 11, 2026
Apex Partners Faces a US$194 Million Debt Pile as Investors Await Audit
Apex Partners faces preliminary debt of R$985.6 million and seeks court protection after an internal review found financial inconsistencies.
August 11, 2026