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Economy & Business - March 2005
DEBT: The Argentine debt swap
The Argentine debt swap was, as we forecast last month, a success. Holders tendered 76% of the outstanding debt, which was far more than the government's critics had suggested. In cash terms, the investors agreed to swap debts worth US$62.3bn for new debt worth US$32.3bn.
- Commodities rise again, changing dynamics
- What's going to happen in 2005?
- Problems loom
- Copom tightens again
- ARGENTINA: Worries mount
- CHILE: Copper boom
- PARAGUAY: Off the bottom
- URUGUAY: Exports buoyant
- VENEZUELA: Unemployment jumps
- BOLIVIA: Congress approves hydrocarbons law
- COLOMBIA: Government defeated by dollar
- PERU: Exports surge
- ECUADOR: Bit of a boom
- NICARAGUA: Inflation stalks
- PANAMA: Decent growth in 2004
- COSTA RICA: Coffee worries
- CUBA: Drought worsens
- DOMINICAN REPUBLIC: Growth of 2% in 2004
- EL SALVADOR: Business call for shift to 5% plus growth
- GUATEMALA: Protests over Cafta
- HONDURAS: Strike to back 2000 wage demand
- The downside to the soya boom
- Nickel; oil; sugar
- COFFEE: Bulls in control
- MEXICO: Reforms of state sector possible eventually
- GUATEMALA: Up by 9%
- DEBT: The Argentine debt swap