Emerging Markets
Latin America, Africa and the Middle East: the currencies, commodities and companies of the emerging world.
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Panama Canal Traffic Rises as Cargo Tonnage Climbs 7%
The Panama Canal is busy again after two drought years, with cargo tonnage rising faster than ship counts in fiscal 2026. Here is …
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Peñoles Buys Back the 12-Contract Silver Deal With Fresnillo
Mexico's Industrias Peñoles has bought back the Silverstream Contract, a series of 12 agreements, from its London-listed unit Fres…
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Africa Hands One Firm a 20-Year Deal to Digitise Its Borders
The AfCFTA Secretariat has signed a 20-year, US$3.1 billion concession with Bergmans to modernise customs across about 50 African …
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Colombia Treats Freight Transport as a High-Risk Activity: What Drivers Get
Road cargo transport is officially a high-risk activity in Colombia, sitting in the occupational-risk system's Class IV. But that …
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Gabon’s Bonds Beat the Emerging World as an Audit Shrinks Its Debt
Gabon's dollar bonds have returned 19.5% in 2026 after an IMF-backed audit cut its debt estimate, while Senegal's spread has widen…
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Walmex Split: Sam’s Club Grows as Bodega Aurrera Loses Ground
Walmex's warehouse clubs are booming while its discount stores lose shoppers, a split that shows Mexico's spending power is now sh…
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Suez Canal Revenue Climbs 13% as Tankers Return to the Red Sea
Suez Canal revenue rose 13% to US$1.26 billion in the second quarter of 2026 as vessel numbers, tonnage and oil tanker transits al…
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Analysts Say Mexico’s World Cup Economic Boost Will Be Modest
From Moody's to Banorte, banks and economists agree the 2026 tournament handed Mexico a real but modest lift, worth a few tenths o…
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KCB Profit Jumps 21% as Banks Outside Kenya Carry More Weight
KCB Group's pre-tax profit rose 20.8% to KSh49.3 billion in the first half of 2026, with subsidiaries outside Kenya supplying 27.7…
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Cemex Wins Nearly US$38 Million From the UK Over an HS2 Land Taking
Cemex has won almost US$38 million from the British government after a tribunal set the compensation for a Birmingham factory site…
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BTG Pactual Raises Its Méliuz Stake to 10.51% in New Filing
BTG Pactual has raised its stake in Méliuz to 10.51%, lifting its direct holding to roughly 10.96 million ordinary shares, up from…
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Cosan Puts Its São Luís Port Terminal Up for Sale to Cut Debt
Cosan, one of Brazil's biggest business groups, has told the market it wants to sell its port terminal in São Luís, in the norther…
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Chile’s Competition Court Fines Metrogas About US$3.6 Million
Chile's competition court fined natural-gas distributor Metrogas about US$3.6 million for an excessive pipeline charge, and ordere…
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CSN Weighs Selling a Minority Stake in Its Logistics Business
Brazil's CSN is exploring the sale of a minority stake in its ports, railway and trucking assets as it races to cut one of the cou…
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Bitcoin Steady at US$63,402; Crypto Flat Thursday
Bitcoin settled at US$63,402 on Thursday, August 13, 2026 as major coins traded flat. What the session means for Latin American ad…
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Gold & Silver Drop: Dollar, Yields Hit Metals
Gold fell 1.29% to US$4,357 and silver 1.14% to US$64.55 on Thursday as a firmer dollar and real yields pressured metals. The LatA…
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Copper Falls: Freeport, Southern Copper Drop Thursday
Copper tracked by CPER slipped 0.42% Thursday. Southern Copper and Freeport-McMoRan fell harder as investors weighed a softer US i…
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Lithium Wrap: LIT Slips, Albemarle and SQM Climb
The lithium-proxy board split on Thursday: the LIT ETF slipped 0.73%, while Albemarle gained 1.67% and SQM rose 1.28% amid EV-dema…
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Iron Ore Falls: Vale Drops 4.3% on China Demand Worry
Vale's New York shares fell 4.30% to US$13.80 and CSN Mineração sank 5.18% as China steel demand fears hit iron ore proxies on Thu…
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US Frames Drug Cartels as Targets, Raising Brazil Sovereignty Concerns
US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth told a summit in Panama on August 12, 2026, that traffickers from US-designated groups are 'a ta…
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YPF Files US$51 Billion ‘Argentina LNG’ Project Under the RIGI Investment Regime
YPF has registered its roughly US$51 billion Argentina LNG project under RIGI, the country's incentive regime for very large inves…
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Brazil Opens Its Reciprocity Law Against US Tariffs, Clearing a Path to Hit Back
Brazil has opened its reciprocity law against United States tariffs, the first formal step toward possibly retaliating on American…
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Washington Names More Than 40 Countries, Including Mexico, in a China Transshipment Crackdown
The White House has published a report titled 'The Great Transshipment Scam', accusing more than 40 countries of helping China rou…
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Argentina Inflation Ticked Up to 2.1% in July, Ending a Three-Month Slowdown
Argentina's monthly inflation ticked up to 2.1% in July 2026, according to the official statistics agency INDEC, ending three stra…