Ultimos Posts 1. 06/11/2007 21:07 - Ubs employee arrested in brazil banking UBS AG, Europe's largest bank by assets, said an employee was arrested today in Sao Paulo after Brazilian police raided offices of retailers and suspected black-market currency traders as part of a probe into money laundering and tax evasion. UBS said in an e-mailed statement the arrested staff member is based in Switzerland and that it is in contact with Brazilian authorities. The... 2. 04/11/2007 12:30 - More to follow bovespa's success After the extraordinary debut of shares in the São Paulo Stock Exchange (Bovespa) on Friday, other market institutions are getting ready to follow. The BM&F, the São Paulo commodities and futures exchange, is close to finalising its own initial public offering set to value the exchange in excess of R$13bn. The way things are, that number should easily be exceeded. A week ago, the B... 3. 27/09/2007 20:05 - Bovespa passes 60,000 mark Brazilian stocks gained, pushing the benchmark index above 60,000 for the first time, led by materials companies, on expectation further U.S. interest rate cuts will drive up commodity prices. Steelmakers Usinas Siderurgicas de Minas Gerais SA and Cia. Siderurgica Nacional and iron miner Cia. Vale do Rio Doce rose to records, leading the Bovespa Index as it gained 1,337.61, or 2.2 ... 4. 16/09/2007 17:53 - Latam to withstand us downturn Analysts are debating to what extent recent liquidity injections by central banks are stabilising financial markets, and what lessons can be learnt from the resilience of EM. Commerzbank argues that emerging sovereigns are still held hostage to exogenous factors but the situation is beginning to normalise. ?EM asset prices continued to recover on the back of the perception that the... 5. 16/09/2007 02:24 - Contagion in latin america The timings of the Asian financial crisis and Russian debt crisis provide a unique window into how Latin America weathered the contagion effects. The Asian crisis and ensuing contagion caught many investors by surprise. Latin American corporations were unnecessarily exposed to private and sovereign default risk because they underestimated the importance of credit hedging. By the ti... | Estadisticas Ver Codigo HTML Posicion del Blog en Nuestro Ranking Hits Semanales Hits Mensuales |