Brazil 6×1 Work Schedule Faces a Decision Week in Congress
Brazil 6x1 work schedule decision week: the Senate committee votes Wednesday, and Congress races to kill the blusinhas tax before...
August 31, 2026Section
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Colombia EPS Debt Hits COP 58 Trillion, Only Four Insurers Comply
Colombia EPS debt reached COP 58 trillion (US$18.3 billion) in 2025, the comptroller says. Only four of 28 health insurers...
August 31, 2026
El Salvador Fuel Prices Rise Again as the Country Courts Digital-Asset Issuers
El Salvador fuel prices rose up to US$0.17 a gallon in August 2026, while the country markets itself as a...
August 31, 2026
Panama Canal Transits Cut to 34 a Day as Drought Tightens Shipping Again
Panama Canal transits fall from 36 to 34 a day from 3 September as drought returns, with record slot auctions...
August 31, 2026
Colombia National Address Adds Elderly Payments, Utility Relief and a Public Apology
The Colombia national address paired quake reconstruction with a seventh payment for nearly three million elderly, utility relief and an...
August 31, 2026
Brazil Election Polls Tighten, Augusto Cury Surges and Markets Cheer
New Brazil election polls show Lula leading but slipping, Augusto Cury jumping to third place, run-off ties - and Ibovespa...
August 31, 2026
Wheat Leads Grain Rally; Brazil, Argentina Exports in Focus
grain markets Brazil Argentina: Wheat surged on Black Sea supply fears, soybeans firmed on Chinese buying, and corn lagged in...
August 31, 2026
Oil Wrap: Petrobras Rises as WTI Slips, Guyana Preps 1M B/d
Latin America oil wrap: WTI-tracking USO fell 0.24% to US$129.70 on Friday as Hormuz talk eased risk, while Petrobras gained...
August 31, 2026
Zinc Pulls Back: Nexa, Buenaventura Drop on Friday
Zinc Nexa Buenaventura pullback: Zinc proxies Nexa Resources and Buenaventura fell on Friday as hawkish Fed bets and profit-taking cooled...
August 31, 2026
Iron Ore Wrap: Vale Falls 1.83% as China Steel Splits
iron ore price: Vale’s US shares dropped 1.83% on Friday, August 28, 2026, while the benchmark iron ore price held...
August 31, 2026
Guyana debt burden falls as IDB calls it one of the world’s fastest-growing economies
Guyana debt service has fallen to five cents of every revenue dollar as oil income floods in, the IDB says,...
August 31, 2026
Argentina Softens Its Dogmas: Caputo Bets on Mattress Dollars, Roads and Mortgages
Argentina's mattress dollars anchor Caputo's reactivation plan: mortgage credit, road concessions and four state firms for sale, without printing money.
August 31, 2026
Lithium Wrap: SQM Slips, Albemarle Rises, LIT Falls
Lithium equities Friday: SQM fell 2.24% and LIT lost 1.37% while Albemarle gained 1.17% on Friday as Chile’s lithium policy...
August 31, 2026
Copper Slips as China Cools; Chile, Peru Keep Floor
copper futures Chile Peru: Copper futures eased on Friday, August 28, 2026, with the CPER tracker down 0.78% as Chinese...
August 31, 2026
Bitcoin Slips to $77,668 After Fed Repricing
Bitcoin Fed repricing: Bitcoin settled at US$77,668 on Sunday, August 30, 2026, after Fed Chair Kevin Warsh’s hawkish Jackson Hole...
August 31, 2026
Gold Slides 3%, Silver 4% as Warsh Lifts Rate Bets
gold silver Warsh: Gold fell to US$4,459 and silver to US$66.39 after Fed chair Kevin Warsh’s hawkish Jackson Hole speech...
August 31, 2026
Chile: Kast Approval Rebounds to 33.8 Percent as His Coalition Pushes Him to Negotiate
Kast approval rose to 33.8 percent in Chile's Pulso Ciudadano poll, with 54.4 percent disapproving, as Santiago offers mining tax...
August 31, 2026
Colombia: Reconstruction Begins After the Earthquake as the Puracé Volcano Rumbles
Colombia reconstruction begins after the 10 August quake with a Buenaventura housing pilot, while the Puracé volcano logs 58 tremors...
August 31, 2026
Honduras Returns to the World Bank’s Arbitration Court With an Eye on Investors
Honduras ICSID membership took effect on 16 August, a clear message to foreign investors. Energy reform could pass Congress next...
August 31, 2026
Colombia’s Guaviare Bombing Killed Three Minors — the Offensive That Replaced ‘Total Peace’
Colombia's Guaviare bombing of a FARC dissident camp left three minors dead, days after the formal end of 'total peace'....
August 31, 2026