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Lula calls on leaders to attend climate talks
Brazil’s president has challenged other world leaders to attend next month’s climate talks in Copenhagen to break the deadlock in negotiations to cut greenhouse gas emissions
IMF official warns on risk of LatAm bubble
Latin America had weathered the financial crisis so well that several countries were paying the price of success with rapidly appreciating currencies and an influx of foreign capital that could raise the spectre of future bubbles, said Nicholas Eyzaguirre, western hemisphere director of the International Monetary Fund
Lex: Argentine fantasy
The government has created an economic wonderland that cannot survive if the country is to return successfully to international capital markets
Opinion: The Fund should help Brazil to tackle inflows
Helping Brazil to moderate inflows of foreign capital rather than issuing a negative response would signal that the IMF is taking a less doctrinaire approach, write Arvind Subramanian and John Williamson
Mexico raises taxes as oil income falls
Legislators have passed a 2010 budget that increases value-added tax for the first time in more than a decade as the government strives to reduce its dependence on revenues from crude production
Short View: Brazil boosts the dollar
A world in which successful countries such as Brazil feel the need for capital controls is not a safe world for the bold ‘reflation’ trade that has led the market this year, writes John Authers
Brazil imposes tax on foreign investments
Brazil’s currency and stocks fell sharply after the government imposed a 2 per cent tax on foreign portfolio investments to stem the rapid rise of its exchange rate
Doubt over Chávez’s cure for health
Many Venezuelans blame Hugo Chávez for the crumbling decay of the oil-rich country’s public hospitals after years of neglect
Argentina eager to satisfy investor appetite
Investor appetite for riskier assets offers up an opportunity for the economy minister
