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Economy & Business - October 2009 (ISSN 1741-7430)
Argentina tries again
On 22 October Argentina's economy minister, Amado Boudou, announced
that the government will launch a debt swap offer to the 'so-called hold outs' -
those creditors holding some US$20bn of defaulted bonds that refused to take
part in the 2005 debt restructuring under the then-president, Néstor
Kirchner.
- Latin America and the international capital markets
- Investors start to fret
- Looking good
- ARGENTINA: On the mend
- CHILE: Still bumping along
- PARAGUAY: Tinkering
- URUGUAY: Exports fall, but not by much
- BOLIVIA: The case for the Bolivian capital market
- COLOMBIA: Budget approved by congress
- ECUADOR: On the up
- PERU: On the (slight) up
- VENEZUELA: Pretty orthodox
- COSTA RICA: Are Colon interest rates too high?
- CUBA: Cuba's 21st Century Socialism
- EL SALVADOR: Remittances down, coffee up
- DOMINICAN REPUBLIC: Inflation was only 0.11% in September
- GUATEMALA: Tax revenues fall
- HONDURAS: Struggling
- NICARAGUA: Export decline not too bad
- PANAMA: Bullish
- LITHIUM: Bolivia talks big
- Brazil's JBS becomes world's biggest meat company
- Argentina tries again