Lithium Wrap: LIT Slips as Albemarle, SQM Diverge
LIT fell 2.17% to US$74.71 while Albemarle rose 0.42% and SQM gained 1.90%. Physical lithium benchmarks in Asia climbed, but...
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Copper Slumps on Fed Hike Bets: Tuesday, September 1, 2026
Copper proxies slid Tuesday as a stronger dollar and rising Fed rate-hike bets hit the industrial metal. Chile and Peru...
September 2, 2026
Lula Says He Personally Would End Betting, but Stops Short of a Decision
Lula said he personally would end betting at a Planalto meeting on 1 September, but announced no measure. Neither the...
September 2, 2026
Mexico Remittances Rise in Dollars and Fall in Pesos
Mexico's remittances hit US$5.571 billion in July, up 3%, but fell about 3.9% in pesos as the currency firmed to...
September 2, 2026
Court Orders Milei’s Government to Apply the University Funding Law
An Argentine federal judge ordered the government to apply the university funding law on 1 September. The Supreme Court had...
September 2, 2026
Bitcoin Slips Below $78,000 on Fed Fears; LatAm Stablecoins
Bitcoin eased to US$77,404 on Tuesday as Treasury yields climbed. LatAm adoption stays anchored in dollar stablecoins, with Brazil and...
September 2, 2026
Colombia’s Pension Funds Offer Savings to the State as Foreign Cap Is Challenged
Colombia's pension funds offered the state 570 trillion pesos (US$179bn). Decreto 0369's 30% foreign-investment cap faces a court challenge, not...
September 2, 2026
Argentina Tax Revenue Rose 33.5%, Flat in Real Terms
Argentina's August tax take rose 33.5% to 20,508,537 million pesos, about US$13.56 billion. Export duties jumped 155%, while VAT fell...
September 2, 2026
Cuba Tourism Falls 62.8% to 419,863 Visitors in Seven Months
Cuba drew 419,863 international visitors from January to July 2026, down 62.8% year on year. Canada alone sent 350,737 fewer...
September 2, 2026
Gold Slips Below $4,400, Silver Tumbles on Rate-Hike Bets
Gold and silver fell hard on Tuesday, September 1, 2026, as a firmer dollar and rising Treasury yields, after Fed...
September 2, 2026
Bolivia’s Exchange Rate Has Risen 76% Since June
Bolivia's official exchange rate hit 12.26 bolivianos per dollar on 2 September, 76% above the peg dropped in June. Reserves...
September 2, 2026
Mercosur-Singapore FTA: A User’s Guide for Brazilian Companies
Mercosur-Singapore FTA in force for Brazil since August 2026: who qualifies, how to claim tariff preferences, origin rules, and where...
September 2, 2026
Colombia Markets: COLCAP & the Peso — September 2, 2026
Colombia's COLCAP stock index jumped 1.86% to 2,470.26 on September 1, while the peso eased to 3,209 per US dollar....
September 2, 2026
Argentina Markets: Merval & the Peso — September 2, 2026
Argentina's Merval stock index rose 0.51% to 3,049,455 points on September 1, while the peso slipped 0.27% to 1,513 per...
September 2, 2026
Brazil’s Senate Clears Data Centre Tax Breaks
Brazil's Senate approved Redata on 1 September: five-year tax suspension for data centres, with a 10% domestic capacity rule and...
September 2, 2026
DHL Global Forwarding Buys Its Uruguayan Agent Aero Cargas
DHL Global Forwarding acquired Aero Cargas of Montevideo on 1 September, its agent of 33 years. No price disclosed. DHL...
September 2, 2026
Peru-Thailand Free Trade Deal Set for Signature This Year
Peru and Thailand finished their free trade text; Lima expects to sign in October or November 2026. Two-way trade ran...
September 2, 2026
Panama Canal Budget Sends US$3.6 Billion to the Treasury
Panama's Cabinet approved the Canal's 2027 budget on 1 September: revenue of 5,555.3 million balboas and a treasury transfer of...
September 2, 2026
Chile Markets: IPSA & the Peso — September 2, 2026
Chile's IPSA index fell 1.14% to 11,315.26 on Tuesday as retailers slipped and the peso weakened past 937 per dollar....
September 2, 2026
Mexico Markets: IPC & the Peso — September 2, 2026
Mexico's S&P/BMV IPC slipped 0.18% to 65,315 while the peso held firm just under 17 per dollar as global risk...
September 2, 2026