By Gabriel Burin BUENOS AIRES (Reuters) – Brazil’s currency will likely enjoy some support in the near term from faster economic growth and progress on reforms, despite the prospect of less favorable interest rate spreads ahead, a Reuters poll showed. The real appreciated last month to its firmest level in a year after several forecasts…
BUENOS AIRES (Reuters) – Argentina will push loan repayments due to the International Monetary Fund (IMF) in July to the end of the month, a person familiar with the matter at the Ministry of Economy said on Wednesday. The payments total $2.6 billion for the month and include $1.3 billion due on Friday. The cash-strapped…
By Sofia Menchu GUATEMALA CITY (Reuters) – Guatemala presidential candidate Bernardo Arevalo, the surprise second-place finisher in first-round elections, said the government is behind attempts to question the result and wants to remove him from the run-off. The country’s top court called for a ballot review of the June 25 vote after the ruling party…
By Vuyani Ndaba JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) – Emerging market currencies will hold on to gains into next year provided their respective central banks hold or only moderately prune already-high interest rates that have boosted carry trades, a Reuters poll found on Thursday. The June 30-July 5 poll of 52 currency strategists found as long as most…
By Daniel Trotta (Reuters) -Survivors of a 2019 massacre at a Texas Walmart that killed 23 people and wounded 22 others addressed the white nationalist shooter directly at a sentencing hearing on Wednesday, including one young victim who reportedly told him, “I want you dead.” The sentencing hearing before U.S. District Judge David Guaderrama in…
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) – Public support for Mexican opposition senator Xochitl Galvez has risen since she declared her intention last week to seek the presidency in 2024, an opinion poll showed on Wednesday. Galvez’s entry into the fray has enlivened media interest in the opposition’s hopes of competing with the leftist ruling National Regeneration Movement…
By David Lawder WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. Trade Representative Katherine Tai’s meetings with North American trade partners Canada and Mexico this week will not delve deeply into major disputes over Mexico’s biotech corn and energy policies nor Canadian dairy access, a senior USTR official said on Wednesday. The annual meeting of the U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA)…
By Kylie Madry MEXICO CITY (Reuters) -Mexican airline Viva Aerobus has signed a memorandum of understanding to purchase 90 Airbus A321neo aircraft, the carrier said on Wednesday, in a deal likely worth several billion dollars. The announcement confirms Reuters reporting last month that the two were close to a tie-up on an order of that…
By Daina Beth Solomon and Dave Graham MEXICO CITY (Reuters) -German carmaker Audi is this month scheduled to announce plans to begin producing electric vehicles in Mexico, according to three people with knowledge of the matter, joining other major carmakers in ramping up EV output in Mexico. Asked to comment, a spokesman in Germany said…
By Nicolás Misculin BUENOS AIRES (Reuters) – Argentina’s election race is narrowing into a two-horse race, polling ahead of the Aug. 13 primary vote shows, with the ruling Peronist coalition’s choice of a centrist candidate defusing some of the threat from far-right libertarian Javier Milei. Pollsters have the main conservative opposition bloc’s top two candidates,…
