Emerging Markets

Peru Export Record Fuels Tech, AI and Automation Supplier Boom

Peru exported US$45.13 billion between January and May 2026, up 37 per cent, and the boom is opening a large market for technology…

Latin America News Roundup: Canal Engine, Nicaragua Reform, IHRA

ECLAC says the Panama Canal is still carrying the country's growth, projected at 4.4 per cent in 2026. In Nicaragua, evangelical p…

Central America Business: IFX Bets US$400 Million on AI Data Centres

Data-centre operator IFX announced more than US$400 million in Latin American investment and a new corporate identity. The United …

Chinese car brands squeeze Nissan, GM and Volkswagen in Mexico

Chinese car brands are taking ground from Nissan, General Motors and Volkswagen in Mexico, even after a 50% import tariff. The shi…

Brazil shorts: Embraer’s self-landing jet, Haddad on Enel, security PEC

Brazil shorts for Wednesday: Embraer's Phenom 300EV became the first light jet certified with an emergency autoland system. Fernan…

Guaraní surge pits Paraguay’s exporters against the central bank

Paraguay's exporters' chamber has turned on the central bank over a dollar down nearly 20% in a year. On the same day, doctors ext…

Venezuela’s Chavismo Blocks Dollarization Push as Power Cuts Bite

Venezuela's chavista-led National Assembly has moved to shut down a legislative push to dollarize the economy, stripping deputy An…

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Caiado Asks Supreme Court to Lift Secrecy on Master, INSS Probes

Ronaldo Caiado used a nationally televised interview to appeal to Brazil's Supreme Court to lift the secrecy shielding the Banco M…

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Brazil Opens US$1.36 Billion Credit for Tariff-Hit Exporters

Brazil will channel US$1.36 billion in new financing to exporters hit by US tariffs under the Brasil Soberano plan. The provisiona…

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Brazil’s CVM Orders Oncoclínicas Tender Offer for Minorities

Brazil's securities regulator has ordered shareholder Centaurus to launch a tender offer for Oncoclínicas minority shares, in a ca…

SureGifts Launches ‘Beyond Cash’ report as Nigeria’s corporate rewards economy hits ₦150 Billion

Twice as much reward value has been issued since the start of 2024 as during the entire preceding decade, while 79.1% of redemptio…

Naira trades at N1,838/£1 against British pound as traders await US inflation data

Nigerian Naira shed slight value against the British Pound in the Nigerian market (both NFEM and parallel). The post Naira trades …

Caputo to Unveil Economic Measures as Argentina Faces Arrears Crisis

Economy Minister Luis Caputo holds a press conference at 10:00 on Wednesday 26 August 2026 at the Palacio de Hacienda to announce …

Brazil Overtakes Mexico as Latin America’s Top FDI Destination in 2026

Brazil received US$46.99 billion of foreign direct investment in the first half of 2026, about US$12 billion more than Mexico's re…

Oil Slides as Iran-Oman Talks Fuel Hopes of Strait of Hormuz Reopening

Oil prices fell for a second straight session on Wednesday 26 August 2026 as Iran and Oman discussed a temporary joint shipping co…

Chile GDP Flat in Second Quarter, Joint-Weakest in the OECD

Chile's economy stagnated in the second quarter of 2026, posting zero growth and a year-on-year contraction. The figures landed in…

Bolivia Swears In New Economy Minister as YPFB Owes US$1.056bn to Traders

President Rodrigo Paz swore in Christian Morales Burgos as Bolivia's new economy minister and told him to keep negotiating with th…

Colombia Court Upholds Pension Reform but Returns Nine Articles

Colombia's Constitutional Court has upheld the core of the pension reform approved under President Gustavo Petro after two years o…

CBN to sell N700 billion Treasury Bills today in second August auction

The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), on behalf of the Debt Management Office (DMO), will offer N700 billion across the 91-day, 182-d…

Keeping Tango Alive Means Letting It Change: Ollantay Rojas on the Past, Present and Future of the Dance

Choreographer Ollantay Rojas curates tango at Casa de la Cultura, honours Claudio Segovia at the Buenos Aires Legislature and, wit…

Atiku vows to restore petrol subsidy, rejects aide’s conflicting position

Presidential candidate of the African Democratic Congress (ADC), Atiku Abubakar, has insisted that he will restore petrol subsidy …

TotalEnergies Says Its Namibian Oil Decision Cannot Wait

The company says engineering is finished and contractor tenders will not stay valid indefinitely, putting pressure on talks with t…

Grains Wrap: Corn Extends Rally, Soy Rebounds

Corn funds rose after the Pro Farmer tour cut the US yield estimate, wheat firmed on Black Sea disruption, and soybeans slipped de…

Latin America Steel: SLX Gains, CSN Slips Tuesday

Latin American steel moved on Tuesday, August 25, 2026: SLX rose, Gerdau gained, CSN fell and Ternium edged up on tariffs and Chin…