Business Monitor International’s (BMI) Head of Latin America Country Risk & Financial Markets, Richard Hamilton, and Head of Americas Research, Cedric Chehab, discuss BMI’s core global themes and the impact and opportunities these will create within the Latin American and Caribbean market. Sign up for a free trial In this recorded webinar the team examines… [Read more]
On this week’s Business Monitor Podcast, we continue our theme of ‘top emerging market picks’ with a focus on Latin America. BMI’s Head of Country Risk and Financial Markets Justin Patrie discusses the region with Head of Latin America Analysis Richard Hamilton and Latin America Analyst Martha Stickings. Specific countries discussed include Colombia, Brazil, Panama… [Read more]
Against an increasingly challenging global economic backdrop, Richard Hamilton, Head of Latin America analysis at Business Monitor International, outlines three core themes for the region. Having been among the first regions to emerge from the global economic downturn in 2009, we take a look at the likely impact of a double-dip in China and an… [Read more]
Another week, another summit. This time around it’s the Organisation of American States (OAS) shindig in Port of Spain, Trinidad, and it appears as though US leader Barack Obama has already delivered the perfect Easter present to Cuba by allowing ‘unlimited’ family travel and remittances for Cuban Americans. While this move was hardly a surprise… [Read more]
RiskWatchdog’s discovery that Caribbean tourism endured something of a slump in 2008 is hardly worthy of front page news. After all, with credit in thin supply, jobless numbers on the rise and confidence at record lows, the last thing on the minds of most consumers last year was the need to top up tans and… [Read more]
The ‘low-key’ (almost anti-climatic) celebrations marking the 50th anniversary since the Cuban revolution on January 1 were highly symbolic of the republic’s current economic, social and political state of affairs. Cuba endured three devastating hurricanes in 2008 (Gustav, Ike and Paloma) incurring damages worth an estimated US$10bn, struggled with soaring fuel and food costs earlier… [Read more]
