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...The consensus for a benign global bond market outlook and soft landing make the valuation case tempting....
...Our position is firstly to recognise them, be transparent, to always talk with our creditors and seek terms which are mutually favourable to honour these obligations,” said justice minister Oscar Manuel...
...“We should be doing more and we are going to be doing more,” José Manuel Campa said about regulators’ efforts to predict how banks would be affected by strains in non-bank financial institutions (NBFIs),...
...Panama’s progress after a US invasion in 1989 to overthrow General Manuel Noriega’s junta was remarkable....
...Leftist President Andrés Manuel López Obrador, who took office in 2018, named longtime political ally Romero to head up the national oil company, giving it $92bn in support via tax breaks and cash injections...
...he too may feel compelled to step up spending on popular schemes.Meanwhile, Mexico’s deficit is rising rapidly towards 5 per cent of GDP, the highest since the 1990s, and the popular president, Andrés Manuel...
...In essence, one could use part of a fund to pay for something else, such as a bond, or even meet a margin call. Right now, it’s hot....
...The US dollar remains the currency of choice and government promises of a bitcoin bond have so far come to nothing. The president’s Achilles heel remains the economy....
...The “tuna bonds” scandal continues to generate controversy....
...The S&P 500 experienced its sharpest decline since the middle of February and US government bonds also rose as investors sought safe-haven assets....
...Goldman’s Manuel Abecasis has crunched the numbers and identified “some tangible reasons why GDI probably understates growth”....
...Alvarez & Marsal has hired Manuel Sammut as a managing director in its Europe, Middle East and Africa corporate finance practice. He previously worked for William Blair....
...The EBA and European Central Bank separately reviewed the level of unrealised losses that Europe’s banks are nursing in their government bond portfolios....
...In Argentina, investors have bid up stocks and sovereign bonds to levels unseen in years after the recent election of President Javier Milei....
...Argentine sovereign bonds rose by the most for two years after Caputo announced a list of economic measures, with the benchmark 2035 bond adding 1.3 cents to 34.9 cents on the dollar on Wednesday, according...
...Manuel Chang lost a battle against US extradition in May, almost five years after he was arrested in Johannesburg on US fraud charges related to the looting of hundreds of millions of dollars from loans...
...Mexico’s President Andrés Manuel López Obrador has proposed a radical overhaul of the constitution, including plans for a directly elected supreme court and a smaller legislature....
...President Andrés Manuel López Obrador, who cannot run again under the constitution, has vowed to “rescue” Pemex as part of a broader energy nationalism strategy to champion state groups and reduce reliance...
...It is the world’s most indebted oil company with more than $100bn in debt, andis held by many emerging market funds attracted to its high premium over Mexican sovereign bonds....
...In the words of Lin Manuel Miranda, maybe we can solve one problem with another and win a victory for the southerners. In other words — a quid pro quo....
...And central banks have maintained their independence, ignoring calls from President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva in Brazil and President Andrés Manuel López Obrador in Mexico to cut interest rates, arguing...
...The change in leadership will bring fresh questions about the future of the state-owned company, which has relied heavily on governmental support under incumbent president Andrés Manuel López Obrador....
...The agency lowered its outlook to negative from stable while retaining a long-term rating of A1 on the nation’s sovereign bonds, according to a statement....
...Higher borrowing costs meanwhile have raised deposit costs and lowered the value of banks’ bond portfolios....
...Andrés Manuel López Obrador, Mexico’s nationalist president, has in the past vowed to “rescue” Pemex, after what he regards as years of damaging privatisation....
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