Bloomberg Chile’s jobless rate falls for a sixth straight month and retail sales rose, adding to growing evidence of recovery in one of Latin America’s richest economies. Unemployment falls 0.1 percentage points to 8.4% in the three months through September, but fell short of the 8.3% median estimate in a Bloomberg survey, the National Statistics Institute reported. The labour force ...

Bloomberg Argentina will allow foreign tourists to transfer dollars into a local account and exchange them to pesos at a more lucrative parallel exchange rate, bypassing capital controls in a bid to lure travelers. Tourists traveling from abroad can open a temporary bank account in Argentina before their trip and transfer up to $5,000 into the country, the central bank ...

Bloomberg Canada’s economic growth unexpectedly faltered at the end of the third quarter, casting doubts on the strength of the nation’s recovery. Gross domestic product was little changed in September, according to a preliminary estimate from Statistics Canada, while the expansion was a less-than-expected 0.4% in August. Overall for the third quarter, the economy grew by 0.5%, or an annualised ...