Soybeans Lead Grains Lower as Harvest Supply Weighs
Soybean, corn and wheat trackers all firmed on Friday, September 11, 2026, as China demand and US harvest pressure set...
September 12, 2026Section
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Oil Wrap: WTI Slips as Gulf Risks Meet Latin Supply Hopes
WTI-tracking USO fell 2.20% on Friday as traders weighed Saudi drone strikes and IEA supply cuts against Latin America's pre-salt,...
September 12, 2026
Steel Wrap: Gerdau Gains as CSN Slumps on Tariffs
Brazilian steel diverged on Friday, September 11, 2026, as Gerdau rose and CSN slumped 7.97%. Tariff protection, not demand, remains...
September 12, 2026
Zinc Steadies as LatAm Miners Diverge on Friday
Galvanised-steel and construction demand framed the zinc tape on Friday, September 11, 2026, while Nexa Resources and Buenaventura diverged.
September 12, 2026
Iron Ore Falls as China Steel Cuts Bite Vale
Iron ore proxies slipped on Friday as Chinese mills cut blast furnace runs and pig iron output, dragging Vale's New...
September 12, 2026
Lithium Slips as China Battery Futures Weaken
Lithium names fell Friday with Albemarle and SQM down sharply while Chinese lithium carbonate futures weakened; here's what it means...
September 12, 2026
Copper Wrap: CPER Rises 0.36% on Firmer Futures
Copper's CPER tracker rose 0.36% Friday while miner shares slipped. Chile and Peru supply the metal for China's grids and...
September 12, 2026
Gold and Silver Rebound as Dollar Rally Pauses
Gold settled at US$4,315 and silver at US$63.46 on Friday, September 11, 2026, as higher real yields and a firmer...
September 12, 2026
Colombia Markets: MSCI Colcap & the Peso — September 12, 2026
Colombia's COLCAP fell 1.41% on Friday, while the peso strengthened slightly against the dollar. Oil weakness anchored the session.
September 12, 2026
Argentina Markets: Merval & the Peso — September 12, 2026
Argentina's Merval index fell 1.87% on Friday while the peso firmed slightly to 1,510 per dollar, testing the Milei reform...
September 12, 2026
Chile Markets: IPSA & the Peso — September 12, 2026
Chile's IPSA index fell 0.16% to 11,220 as SQM's lithium slide offset gains in retailers. The peso held flat at...
September 12, 2026
Mexico Markets: IPC & the Peso — September 12, 2026
Mexico's S&P/BMV IPC fell 0.45% on Friday while the peso firmed slightly to 16.966 per dollar. Read the drivers behind...
September 12, 2026
Brazil Markets: Ibovespa & the Real — September 12, 2026
Ibovespa fell 0.56% to 187,207 points and the real weakened to 5.1264 per US dollar as Supreme Court tensions hit...
September 12, 2026
Global Economy Briefing — September 12, 2026
Global economy: Wall Street snapped a losing streak as oil and volatility fell and the US 10-year hovered near 5%,...
September 12, 2026
Latin American Pulse for Saturday, September 12, 2026
Latin America Pulse: Brazil's Master case secrecy lifts as Chile marks the coup. Argentina, Mexico, Colombia and Peru feel the...
September 12, 2026
María Fernanda Benítez Killer Receives Eight-Year Maximum Sentence in Paraguay
María Fernanda Benítez was 17 and pregnant. Her teenage killer got the maximum eight years; her mother calls the sentence...
September 11, 2026
Peru Bill Would End Sentence Reductions for Femicide, Kidnapping and Aggravated Robbery
Peru femicide, kidnapping and aggravated robbery convicts would lose work-and-study sentence reductions under a bill by deputy Norma Yarrow.
September 11, 2026
Trinidad and Tobago Frees 31 Emergency Detainees as Wage Deadline Looms
Trinidad and Tobago released 31 preventive-detention detainees as the state of emergency winds down — and gave the PSA union...
September 11, 2026
Bolivia Pushes Three-Month Extension of State of Exception as Reform Referendum Slips a Year Away
Bolivia's state of exception would be extended three months under a resolution passed by a deputies' commission; the constitutional referendum...
September 11, 2026
Amazon Cargo Plane Was Too Fast Before Deadly Miami Crash, NTSB Data Shows
NTSB recorder data shows a pilot warned of excessive speed before Amazon Air Flight 7598 from San Juan overran a...
September 11, 2026