Emerging Markets
Latin America, Africa and the Middle East: the currencies, commodities and companies of the emerging world.
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Argentina’s UVA Mortgages Are Back, but the Recovery Is Fragile
Argentina · Economy Key Facts June 2026 originations About 1,850 UVA mortgages worth roughly US$150 million, the best monthly…
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Nearly 3 Million Mexican Jobs Are Exposed to Generative AI
Mexico · Economy Key Facts Affected jobs An estimated 2.93 million Mexican jobs, or 4.9% of the labour market, sit in occupat…
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Mexico’s Airport Traffic Splits Three Ways in July as ASUR Slips
Mexico · Aviation Key Facts ASUR traffic ASUR reported 6,383,731 passengers in July 2026, down 1.9% year on year. GAP traffic…
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Ecuador Courts Private Capital to Reverse Its Oil Decline
Ecuador · Energy Key Facts Target Ecuador aims to attract up to US$41.5 billion in private oil-and-gas investment under a mul…
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Kast’s Approval Sits at 35% as Chileans Sour on the Country’s Direction
Chile · Politics Key Facts Pollster Criteria, online panel published 9 August 2026. Approval 35% of respondents approve of Pr…
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Argentina’s Top Court Curbs Provinces’ Discriminatory Gross-Receipts Tax
Argentina · Economy Key Facts Rulings Argentina’s Supreme Court in 2026 struck down differential gross-receipts tax rat…
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Cashea Raises US$100 Million to Bankroll Venezuela’s Credit Revival
Venezuela · Fintech Key Facts Total raised Cashea secured US$100 million in 2026, split between a US$40 million Series A (Mar…
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Copper and Lithium Anchor the Chile-US Minerals Alliance
Chile · Economy Key Facts Copper dominance Chilean electrolytic copper accounted for 54% of U.S. imports of that product in 2…
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Chinese Investment in Mexico: The Viral Number vs. the Record
Mexico · Economy Key Facts Scale A reported 750 billion pesos in Chinese-linked investment across Mexican states remains unve…
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Brazil, Colombia and Peru Launch a Joint Amazon River Operation
Brazil · Security Key Facts Operation BRACOLPER 2026, the 52nd edition of the trilateral river exercise. Participants Brazil,…
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Two Miners Survive a Structural Collapse at Chuquicamata
Chile · Mining Key Facts Incident Structural containment cover gave way at Chuquicamata Subterránea on August 8, 2026, a…
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Petro’s Pension Reform Faces a Make-or-Break Court Date
Colombia's pension reform returns to the Constitutional Court on August 13 for a procedural ruling that could revive or kill Petro…
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Milei 2.0: Who Is Winning in Argentina’s New Economy
A La Nacion report describes a Milei economic elite forming around energy, agriculture and mining. Here is who is gaining - and wh…
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Panama Launches ‘Steel Shield’ to Lock Down Its Darien Border
Panama's border operation Escudo de Acero puts 500+ agents on the 266km Darien frontier with Colombia, targeting the Clan del Golf…
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The Colombian State Owns 62 Companies. Here’s What They’re Worth
Colombia state companies number 62 and are worth COP 197.27 trillion (about US$62.5 billion), a finance-ministry report shows, wit…
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Why Argentina’s Credit Keeps Shrinking Even as Inflation Cools
Argentina private credit fell again in real terms in July as high rates and the BCRA's peso absorption squeeze lending - the so-ca…
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Peru’s New Government Takes Four Spending Laws to Court
Peru's finance minister Elmer Cuba is challenging four spending laws - including costly teacher and military pensions - at the Con…
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El Niño Turns Central America’s Dry Corridor Into a Hunger Zone
An El Niño food crisis is hitting Honduras and Guatemala, with millions across the Dry Corridor facing acute hunger, aid agencies …
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Why Banxico’s New Bond Tool Is Testing Its Autonomy
A new secondary-market debt tool tests Banxico autonomy, but the 1994 firewall against financing the government still holds. The p…
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Copper Presses Higher on Monday; CPER Gains 0.70%
The copper-tracking fund CPER settled at US$40.18, up 0.70% Monday, as Freeport-McMoRan jumped 1.28% and Southern Copper climbed 1…
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LatAm Pre-Open — Tuesday, August 11, 2026
Silver's overnight surge and Brazil's mid-month inflation data set a cautious tone for Latin American markets, with the real stead…
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Apex Partners Faces a US$194 Million Debt Pile as Investors Await Audit
Apex Partners, the Espirito Santo investment group, disclosed preliminary debt of about R$985.6 million and seeks judicial protect…
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Banco Inter Posts Record Quarterly Profit of US$83 Million
Banco Inter's record quarterly profit of R$421 million (US$83 million) in Q2 2026 marks its best quarter ever, though shares dippe…
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Sao Paulo Governor Debate: Tarcisio and Haddad Clash on Crime and Economy
In the first Sao Paulo governor debate of 2026, Tarcisio de Freitas and Fernando Haddad faced off on Band, tackling crime, fiscal …