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Mexico
Luxembourg-based steelmaker Arcelor Mittal has agreed to buy 100% of Sicartsa, a Mexican integrated steel producer, from Grupo Villacero in a deal worth $1.4 billion. Sic...
Brazil
Brazil's National Development Bank (BNDES) launched the first tranche of a debentures issuance program via its investment unit BNDESPar on Wednesday. The Bank is issuing ...
Brazil's Central Bank has scaled back its economic growth forecast for this year from 3.5% to 3%, according to the latest quarterly report. The Bank also lowered its esti...
Colombia
Colombian cement producer Cementos Argos has closed a $480 million syndicated loan through Citigroup Global Markets and BNP Paribas Securities, after receiving commitment...
M&A
Colombia's anti-trust regulator has approved the merger of the country's top two retailers, Almacenes Exito and Carulla Vivero, although the newly merged entity must sell...
Commitments are due this week for CVRD's $5 billion two-tranche pre-export loan, part of the takeout of an $18 billion financing for the acquisition of Inco. The deal via...
Brazilian highway operator Concessionária Ecovias dos Imigrantes has launched a debentures issue worth $208 million (450 million reais). The debentures are being issued i...
Funds
Brazilian aircraft manufacturer Embraer is also seeking to sell shares via a secondary offering. The 43.3 million common shares will be sold by pension funds Previ and Si...
Bonds Structured Finance
The Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) has approved up to $80 million for a revolving mortgage-backed credit facility for Securitizadora Security GMAC-RFC, a Chilean s...
Equity
Brazilian paper and pulp company Suzano Papel e Celulose is to make a secondary share offering via Bovespa. Suzano Holding, the company's controlling shareholder, will se...
US truck manufacturer Freightliner, a unit of US automaker DaimlerChrysler, has announced it is to invest $300 million in building a second plant in Mexico, planned for S...
Bonds
Venezuela is to buy back a further $800 million in dollar bonds in its drive to reduce the country's foreign debt burden. The proposed buyback by the government was appro...