Peru’s Alicorp Buys Unilever Home Care in Colombia, Ecuador
Peru's Alicorp is buying Unilever's home-care business in Colombia and Ecuador, taking over 4 brands as the global group exits...
August 3, 2026Section
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ExxonMobil Guyana AI Spots 4 Offshore Oil Targets
ExxonMobil Guyana: the CFO told the Q2 earnings call that AI identified four new prospects in the Stabroek block. No...
August 3, 2026
El Salvador Property Prices Hit US$276/m², Doubling in a Decade
El Salvador property prices doubled in a decade to US$276/m², with the average home now US$30,600. See the real gap...
August 3, 2026
Brazil Narrows Big Tech Bill, Cuts Who It Covers
Brazil’s big tech bill wasn’t dropped—it was narrowed. New combined criteria shrink the field despite R$50B revenue thresholds. See what...
August 3, 2026
Chile May Sell Water Utility Stake, Losing Veto Power
Chile sold its water utilities years ago but kept about 5% of each. That Chile water utility stake carries a...
August 3, 2026
Ivory Coast Raises Fuel Prices for the Second Time Since May
Ivory Coast fuel prices rose on 1 August, with petrol at 905 CFA francs a litre and diesel at 725,...
August 3, 2026
Equatorial Guinea Gas Deal Delayed on China Investment Rules
The Equatorial Guinea gas deal with China's Fuhai Energy has slipped to 31 August, after new Chinese outbound investment rules...
August 3, 2026
Gold and Silver Jump as Haven Bids Lift LatAm Producers
Gold futures rose 1.02% and silver 1.92% on Monday, lifting Mexican and Peruvian miner proxies as a softer dollar and...
August 3, 2026
Copper Slips with China Data; Chile, Peru Supply in Focus
Copper futures eased on Monday, with the CPER fund at US$39.56, as weaker Chinese manufacturing data weighed. Southern Copper fell...
August 3, 2026
Argentina’s Main Oil Pipeline Was Hacked. The Oil Kept Moving.
Oldelval told the securities regulator that hackers reached its administrative systems. Crude transport was never interrupted - but the same...
August 3, 2026
Latin American Pulse for Monday, August 3, 2026
Latin America Pulse: Lula nominated, BRB gets US$1.3bn rescue without federal cash, and Bogotá says goodbye to Petro.
August 3, 2026
Brazil’s Financial Morning Call for Monday, August 3, 2026
Ibovespa: Brazil's financial morning call: Copom August-meeting wagers, industrial production data, and corporate radar from MRV to SOEs set the...
August 3, 2026
Global Economy Briefing — August 3, 2026
Global economy: Ahead of US factory orders and JOLTS job openings, global equities held firm and the dollar steadied. The...
August 3, 2026
LatAm Pre-Open — Monday, August 3, 2026
Latin American markets: Latin America pre-open for Monday 3 August 2026: Copom week begins with Brazil inflation cooling sharply, setting...
August 3, 2026
Brazil Grain Exports Surge, Dragging Crop Funds Down
Soybean, corn and wheat trackers fell on Friday, with WEAT down 3.29%, CORN 0.62% and SOYB 0.08%, as ample Brazilian...
August 3, 2026
Latin America Oil: Petrobras, YPF Rise as Ecopetrol Drops
The USO oil fund rose 1.33% to US$129.17 on Friday. Petrobras gained 1.46% and YPF 0.75%, while Ecopetrol fell 1.58%...
August 3, 2026
Latin American Steel Falls as Cheap Asian Imports Hit Mills
Latin American steel equities eased on Friday as the SLX fund slipped 0.89%, with Gerdau flat and Mexico's Ternium up...
August 3, 2026
Zinc Latin America Drops as Nexa, Buenaventura Fall
Zinc proxies fell on Friday: Nexa Resources dropped 2.36% to US$12.85 and Buenaventura sank 4.96% to US$30.28 on construction-demand worries.
August 3, 2026
Vale ADR Edges Up 0.47% to US$15.06 as China Steel Signals Shift
Vale's NYSE ADR, a proxy for iron ore, moved 0.47% to US$15.06 as investors sized up Chinese steel demand. Rio...
August 3, 2026
Chile Lithium Stocks: SQM Drops 2% on Codelco Takeover Fears
Lithium equities fell on Friday: SQM lost 2.00% to US$67.06 and the LIT ETF slipped 0.85% to US$69.22 as Chile's...
August 3, 2026