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]
What is the impact of global events on the region’s growth prospects and what are the implications for individual countries? If you need critical insights and market views to help you identify key opportunities and avoid market risks, Business Monitor International’s (BMI’s) expert analysts can provide the answers. Sign up for a free trial In… [Read more]
In Business Monitor Online today, my colleagues and I discuss which countries in Latin America and Africa are most vulnerable to a renewed global slowdown emanating from the US and Europe, and the transmission mechanisms that would affect the two regions. Although the impact of a US-European slowdown on Latin America would be severe, we… [Read more]
Political risk has ceased to be a dominant theme in Latin America over the past couple of years, allowing the region to emerge ever more prominently on global investors’ radar screens since the global financial crisis. The focus, instead, shifted towards the region’s resource wealth, the vast capital investment growth potential and the growing consumer… [Read more]
Political risk in Latin America has not been on most investors’ radar screens since the global financial crisis. Sure, you’ve had the headline grabbing stories about Mexico’s drug cartels, and Venezuelan leader Hugo Chávez’s colourful rhetoric still gets a fair bit of exposure outside the region. There’s also been a military coup in Honduras, and… [Read more]
The Clash Of The Soft Drinks Giants In Emerging Markets Peruvian drinks company Aje Group announced last week that it is issue its first bond, worth US$200mn, to fund expansion into Asia and Latin America and revealed it was also considering an IPO (initial public offering). The prospect of more rapid growth for Aje is… [Read more]
Although many of the more promising consumer industries in Latin America are reasonably easy to identify (e.g. food & drink and retail stocks), there are several other consumer-related sectors that I think have massive growth potential over the medium term. The first is airlines. Business and leisure travel is set to boom over the coming years,… [Read more]
