Bloomberg Brazil’s stocks, bonds and currency are posting some of the worst returns in the world this month amid deteriorating public finances, a worsening growth outlook and political turmoil. The Ibovespa stock benchmark posted its fourth straight month of losses, its worst run since 2014, and closed in a bear market, down 21% from its June peak. The real has ...

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 ...