Chile

Despite our bearish bias towards Latin American equities, we are not yet ready to call the top in regional stock markets. The recent leg down prompted by the US Federal Reserve's decision... 2010-08-12

Having repeatedly failed to punch through multi-month trendline resistance in Q210, our near-term outlook on the Chilean peso is decidedly bearish. That the unit has remained firmly... 2010-06-29

In keeping with the trend seen across Latin American FX, the Chilean peso has strengthened markedly against the US dollar in recent days. After touching a recent high of CLP549.70/US$... 2010-06-11

We have been highlighting for some time now that the Chilean peso is our least favoured of the major Latin American currencies, with the rising risks to Chile's macroeconomic outlook... 2010-06-02

Picking up from where we left off in Tuesday's Latin America Daily Financial Alert (May 18), our bearish stance on LatAm equities remains firmly in place. Rising uncertainty in global... 2010-05-20

Our key regional FM strategies of late has been a marked wariness towards Latin American equities. Having been the EM outperformers in the early part of this year, we believe key regional... 2010-05-18

With shockwaves from the sovereign crisis in Europe sending investors running for the safety of the US dollar, LatAm currencies have suffered losses across the board against the greenback... 2010-05-06

We have been highlighting for some time now that the foremost threat to our generally bullish macroeconomic outlook for Latin America comes from the prospect of a double dip downturn... 2010-04-28

Our cautious attitude toward Latin American stocks has been borne out after indices across the region took a major hit on Friday following two significant pieces of bad news.

Chile's six-month breakeven inflation rate reversed the upward trend in place since the turn of the year on April 8 following the release of March consumer price inflation (CPI) data,... 2010-04-09