News of assets

Eduardo Costa and Máximo Kircher head Congress rich list ranking

03-10-2023 10:01 Santa Cruz Senator Eduardo Costa and deputy for Buenos Aires Province Máximo Kirchner have the biggest fortunes in Congress, according to their sworn statements for 2022. The biggest variations in assets and who completes the list of the wealthiest national legislators.

by Daniela Mozetic

MARKET REACTION

Argentine assets extend sell-off after vote surprise roils markets

15-08-2023 14:05 Argentine assets extend losses as strong support for outsider Javier Milei in a weekend primary vote reverberates through markets.

ELECTION 2023

Presidential hopefuls disclose assets to authorities ahead of primaries

10-08-2023 19:02 Presidential hopefuls file sworn statements breaking down their assets before the Anti-Corruption Office. We have we learnt?

by Julian D'Imperio

BLOOMBERG – ANALYSIS

Argentina’s assets to watch before key primary election

10-08-2023 15:20 Argentines will head to the polls in a nationwide primary election on Sunday, with traders watching closely for signs of regime change in the debt-ridden nation mired in yet another economic crisis.

BLOOMBERG - ANALYSIS

Argentina is buckling under strain of US$174-billion debt mountain

10-02-2023 14:36 Cut off from global credit markets, Argentina’s government is selling ever more local currency bonds, amassing a debt load that already totals 33 trillion pesos and is rising almost exponentially.

BLOOMBERG

Rich investors pull out of Chile, leaving behind a US$50-billion hole

19-01-2023 14:45 Chile, Latin America’s stand-out economy for the better part of 50 years and a darling of Wall Street, is in many ways facing an existential moment.

Bloomberg

Argentina must avoid ‘hot money’ pitfall, top economist says

28-12-2022 18:17 Influential Carlos Melconian details recommendations he is drafting for a more business-friendly government to enact following the 2023 elections.

POLITICS – ANALYSIS

Operation ‘spook’

17-12-2022 06:00 With inflation running near 100 percent and an economy that could grind to a halt given a structural lack of hard currency, optimism is reserved for the brave.

by Agustino Fontevecchia

COLOMBIA ELECTIONS 2022

Jubilant Gustavo Petro elected Colombia's first leftist president

20-06-2022 14:35 Ex-guerrilla Gustavo Petro elected Colombia's first ever left-wing president after defeating millionaire businessman rival Rodolfo Hernández in run-off.

Latin America

Ex-guerrilla takes on maverick in race to be Colombia's president

18-06-2022 01:20 A former leftist guerrilla and a millionaire businessman will go head-to-head on Sunday hoping to become the new president of Colombia.

Colombia Election 2022

Colombians set to vote in high stakes presidential run-off

17-06-2022 18:22 Colombians vote Sunday in a presidential run-off. Opinion polls have leftist Gustavo Petro and businessman Rodolfo Hernández neck-and-neck.

COLOMBIA ELECTIONS 2022

Colombian outsider makes run-off with real shot at presidency

31-05-2022 11:18 Rodolfo Hernández, who was little known at the start of the year, surged into Colombia’s presidential run-off – and he now has a real chance at winning against leftist rival Gustavo Petro.

BLOOMBERG

Colombia’s number one banker has no fear of leftist front-runner

19-05-2022 08:00 Luis Carlos Sarmiento Gutiérrez would figure to be one of the people fretting the most about the looming election of the first left-wing leader in Colombia’s modern history. But, at least publicly, he betrays little angst about the outcome of the vote this month.

RULING COALITION

Frente de Todos senators eye bill to tax undeclared assets held overseas

28-03-2022 22:02 Ruling coalition senators propose new bill that would tax the undeclared assets of citizens held overseas and use them to pay off IMF debt.

BLOOMBERG – INTERVIEW

Colombia presidential front-runner Gustavo Petro seeks global anti-oil bloc

17-01-2022 06:59 Colombia’s presidential front-runner Gustavo Petro is calling on ideological allies across Latin America and the world to join him in forming a new bloc to lead the economy away from fossil fuels.

ECONOMY

BitCow: Cryptocurrencies break into Argentina’s agricultural sector

26-12-2021 08:00 Blockchain technology and tokenisation of assets such as cows and soybeans could provide Argentina’s agricultural sector with greater transparency and traceability

LEFTIST ELECTED PRESIDENT

Chile stock market plummets in response to Boric's election win

20-12-2021 11:40 Chilean stock market and peso takes a beating after leftist leader Gabriel Boric is elected the country's youngest-ever president-elect.

News of assets

Eduardo Costa and Máximo Kircher head Congress rich list ranking

Argentine assets extend sell-off after vote surprise roils markets

Presidential hopefuls disclose assets to authorities ahead of primaries

Argentina’s assets to watch before key primary election

Argentina is buckling under strain of US$174-billion debt mountain

Rich investors pull out of Chile, leaving behind a US$50-billion hole

Argentina must avoid ‘hot money’ pitfall, top economist says

Operation ‘spook’

Jubilant Gustavo Petro elected Colombia's first leftist president

Ex-guerrilla takes on maverick in race to be Colombia's president

Colombians set to vote in high stakes presidential run-off

Colombian outsider makes run-off with real shot at presidency

Colombia’s number one banker has no fear of leftist front-runner

Frente de Todos senators eye bill to tax undeclared assets held overseas

Colombia presidential front-runner Gustavo Petro seeks global anti-oil bloc

BitCow: Cryptocurrencies break into Argentina’s agricultural sector

Chile stock market plummets in response to Boric's election win

Cristina Fernández de Kirchner and Victoria Villarruel hold ‘historic’ transition meeting

Karina Milei: How the most important member of Argentina’s next government thinks

Attack on fans overshadows Argentina historic win over Brazil

Who will be in Javier Milei’s Cabinet? The ministers and secretaries confirmed so far

Victoria Villarruel, the first vice-president to play down dictatorship’s crimes

El destino del PAMI en la era Milei, en manos del PRO

Gabinete de Javier Milei: ya se confirmaron los nombres de seis ministros y seis secretarios

Aguinaldo: ¿Javier Milei puede decidir que no se pague?

Habló David Nalbandian tras ser acusado por acoso sexual y hostigamiento a su ex pareja

Malena Galmarini salió a responderle a Javier Milei por la privatización de AySA