Latin America
Argentina / Economy
Our latest round of BMI's Sovereign Risk Rating (SRR) update for Latin America and the Caribbean region reveals that investor perceptions of governments' creditworthiness generally align with our own assessment of default risk. There are, of course, several exceptions which we feel our forward-looking assessment of a sovereign's ability and willingness to pay captures.
2013-05-15Argentina / Economy
Despite the recent protestations of the Argentine government, we maintain that the country is headed for a currency devaluation this year. Indeed, growing demand for dollars, as measured...
2013-05-08Argentina / Economy
Argentina's Merval equity index has rallied 30.3% in US dollar terms in 2013, in line with our expectations for continued strong gains (see our online service, February 6, 'Merval To...
2013-05-07Analysis On Fixed Income, Fx & Equity Markets
Argentina
Despite the recent protestations of the Argentine government, we maintain that the country is headed for a currency devaluation this year. Indeed, growing demand for dollars, as measured...
2013-05-08Argentina
Argentina's Merval equity index has rallied 30.3% in US dollar terms in 2013, in line with our expectations for continued strong gains (see our online service, February 6, 'Merval To...
2013-05-07Brazil
An ongoing decline in interest rate expectations in Brazil is placing growing downside pressure on the exchange rate, which could correct sharply in the near term. Although we continue...
2013-05-03Argentina
We see three discrete events that could instigate a short-term run-up in the share price of the American depositary receipt (ADR) for Argentina's state-owned oil and gas firm YPF. That...
2013-04-29Argentina
Our latest round of BMI's Sovereign Risk Rating (SRR) update for Latin America and the Caribbean region reveals that investor perceptions of governments' creditworthiness generally...
2013-05-15Argentina
Although the latest sovereign risk ratings data shows no change in the average overall score for Latin America since our last (October) update, we continue to see 2013 as a challenging...
2013-02-28Argentina
Even after a wave of downgrades to our sovereign risk ratings for Latin America in our previous (August) update, further macroeconomic forecast revisions have seen us undertake another...
2012-10-17Argentina
Latin America has seen its overall sovereign risk profile deteriorate on account of recent economic growth downgrades in the region. We believe that macroeconomic headwinds will continue...
2012-08-16Guyana
We are revising our forecast for the Guyanese dollar for 2013, as the Bank of Guyana (BOG) will allow for greater exchange rate flexibility in order to boost export competitiveness...
2013-03-12Argentina
We expect the Argentine peso will continue to fall slowly and steadily over the next several weeks. Despite this steady weakening, which has been the norm for the past three years,...
2013-03-07Chile
A risk to our previous forecast for copper weakness has played out (see our online service, December 7, 2012, 'CLP: Weakening Ahead On Lower Copper Prices'), and we now expect that...
2013-01-11Chile
In the coming weeks, we believe the Chilean peso will bounce off resistance around CLP476.00/US$, in line with a depreciatory trend that began after the peso hit its 2012 high of CLP467.00/US$...
2012-12-07
