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  • Aug 27, 2024

Fed Bets Fuel Best Month of 2024 for Latin America Local Debt

(Bloomberg) -- Latin America’s local-currency bonds are staging the strongest monthly advance this year as the Federal Reserve draws closer to cutting interest rates for the first time since the onset of the pandemic. Most Read from BloombergNazi Bunker’s Leafy Makeover Turns Ugly Past Into Urban EyecatcherChicago Overcomes DNC Skeptics With Calm, Parties and SunHow the Cortiços of São Paulo Helped Shelter South America’s Largest CityBets that the long-awaited easing is poised to begin next mont

  • Aug 27, 2024

Analysis-Mexico central bank has growing inflation challenge: extortion

Beyond the common challenges like currency fluctuations and supply shocks that keep the world's central bankers up at night, in Mexico there is an additional foe for those conjuring monetary policy: protection rackets. Extortion has become a massive problem in Mexico, with powerful drug cartels exerting deep influence over swathes of the country. Keen to establish new revenue streams, these groups have been turning to extorting businesses by forcing them to pay protection money.

  • Aug 27, 2024

Brazil’s Annual Inflation Barely Slows as Investors Bet on Interest Rate Hikes

(Bloomberg) -- Brazil’s annual inflation cooled roughly in line with expectations in early August, providing limited relief to a central bank that’s under sustained pressure to raise interest rates.Most Read from BloombergNazi Bunker’s Leafy Makeover Turns Ugly Past Into Urban EyecatcherChicago Overcomes DNC Skeptics With Calm, Parties and SunHow the Cortiços of São Paulo Helped Shelter South America’s Largest CityOfficial data released Tuesday showed prices increased 4.35% in the first two week

  • Aug 27, 2024

US Home-Price Gains Outpace Inflation With 5.4% Annual Increase

(Bloomberg) -- Home-price gains in the U.S. slowed in June as buyers pulled back from the market while listings started to climb. Most Read from BloombergNazi Bunker’s Leafy Makeover Turns Ugly Past Into Urban EyecatcherChicago Overcomes DNC Skeptics With Calm, Parties and SunHow the Cortiços of São Paulo Helped Shelter South America’s Largest CityA national measure of prices rose 5.4% from a year earlier, according to data from S&P CoreLogic Case-Shiller. That compares with a 5.9% annual increa

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