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Argentina’s Prat-Gay leaves debt deadline move with holdouts

Bloomberg Argentina called on bondholders to give the country more time to repay about $12 billion in debt still owing from its 2001 default as a court hearing prevents the government from making the payment within the deadline. The New York Appeals Court will begin to hear the case on April 13, one day before Argentina has to make the ...

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‘Brazen one’ puts spanner in Kia’s Mexico plant

Bloomberg For Kia Motors Corp. Mexico’s historic car boom isn’t working out as planned. A dispute with a recently elected state leader may prevent the start of production next month at a northern Mexico car factory representing more than $1 billion in investment, Kia said on Tuesday. The plant is in the cross hairs of Nuevo Leon Governor Jaime Rodriguez, ...

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Another Brazil state-run giant readies its own graft writedowns

Bloomberg A year after Brazilian oil giant Petroleo Brasileiro SA took a writedown of $2.1 billion because of the sweeping corruption scandal known as Carwash, another state-run company is getting closer to reporting its own price tag from graft losses. The team of lawyers and specialists hired by Centrais Eletricas Brasileiras SA has finished the bulk of its investigation to ...

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