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Latin American equity indices have undergone a severe bear market in 2008, closing the year down almost 60% in some cases. While equity markets across the world have seen enormous... 2009-01-02

BMI View: We have grown extremely bearish on Latin America's growth prospects as the region faces a darker age of lower commodity prices, stricter financing, and waning demand. In... 2008-12-23

BMI View: We have grown extremely bearish on Latin America's growth prospects as the region faces a darker age of lower commodity prices, stricter financing, and waning demand. In... 2008-12-23

BMI View: Ecuador's outright suspension of external debt payments, which has triggered the first major default since Argentina in 2001, will inevitably put Latin America's sovereign... 2008-12-15

Our interest rate targets for 2008 in Brazil, Chile and Peru have now been met following the recent policy rate meetings in all three countries. In October, we decisively shifted... 2008-12-12

BMI View: As BMI has alluded to for some time, 2009 is gearing up to be all about disinflation, as concerns over price pressures give way to falling consumer confidence and sluggish... 2008-12-05

After Monday's turbulent start to the week, here are our views on several stand-out charts spanning across the asset class spectrum of equity, fixed-income, and

Three-month copper has continued to decline, in line with the view we promoted in our last commodity price forecast. At US$3,646/tonne the metal is down by approximately 58% since... 2008-12-01

One of the more worrying trends starting to surface in Latin America this year has been the softening of industrial production (IP) across the region. Indeed, the chart below depicts... 2008-12-01

After holding up reasonably well in the first half of November, Latin America's benchmark currencies have started to look pretty dicey again versus the US dollar. Risk aversion is... 2008-11-24