Multilatinas: Food Companies Dominate Growth
Steel and mining companies continued to see strong declines in the 3Q14, though they were balanced out by gains in food and beverage companies. Revenues at 25 of the largest multilatinas saw a slight...
View ArticleFood and Energy Lead MNC Index
Following trends seen in our Multilatina Index, food and energy companies saw the largest gains in our index of 25 leading Multinationals in Latin America. Overall, the third quarter of 2014 was a...
View ArticleVenezuela’s Business Climate to Worsen in 2015
Latin Trade spoke with IHS’s Diego Moya Ocampos about the business climate in Venezuela amid a declining global oil price. By Mark Keller In what came as little surprise to those familiar with Latin...
View ArticleCuban warming
By Frank Holder, Chairman, FTI Consulting Latin American region The last remnants of Cold War hostilities began to unravel on December 17, 2014 when United States President Barack Obama ordered the...
View ArticleOil plunge claims first victims in Mexico
By Marco N. Yurén. More than 10,000 workers sub-contracted by Petróleos Mexicanos (Pemex) through petroleum service companies lost their jobs in January due to the cancellation of contracts with this...
View ArticleMexico’s energy reform and oil-hungry China
By Wenyuan Wu Under the legal framework of Mexico’s new Hydrocarbons Law, state oil firm Pemex’s tasks of transferring entitlements and reaching joint venture partnerships with other oil companies...
View ArticleSummit of the Americas: Interview with Andres Gluski, CEO of AES
By Sol Lauria/Panama Andres Gluski is the CEO of AES, the second largest privately-owned electricity company in Latin America. He went to Panama to take part in the Second Summit of Businessmen of the...
View ArticleOpportunities for diversifying energy sources grow in Central America and the...
By Jaime Mejia The new realities of global energy markets and the direction in which the United States is directing its energy policy are opening opportunities enabling the countries of Central America...
View ArticleMexico’s Secretary Of Energy Pedro Joaquin Coldwell And Economist Guillermo...
LT Announces BRAVO Award winners Coldwell to accept the Transformational Leader of the Year Award for his role in shaping Mexico’s energy sector, while Ortiz to be honored with the BRAVO Legacy Award...
View Article2015 Symposium interview with Andres Gluski, CEO of AES
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View ArticleOpportunity in Oil
Ecopetrol will invest to improve its oil recovery methods: Echeverry, CEO of Ecopetrol “The 2016 budget has been focused on Exploration and production,” the CEO of Colombian state oil company Ecopetrol...
View ArticleMexico’s solar sector: An unexploited energy hot-spot
Accounting for 0.1 percent of total electricity generation, solar energy in Mexico is largely unexploited, making it the second-to-last source of energy after biogas. But the spotlight may be about to...
View ArticleMacri announces commercial agreement between YPF and Dow Argentina
Argentine President Mauricio Macri on Tuesday announced a commercial agreement between YPF and Dow Argentina. Under the agreement, both companies move toward a new stage for the massive “El Orejano”...
View ArticleThe fourth industrial revolution will be driven by energy
World Economic Forum Davos-Klosters, Switzerland – Far from being a romantic dream, renewables are central to meeting the energy demands that the Fourth Industrial Revolution will bring. Clean energy...
View ArticleMexico to receive $7 billion in energy sector investments: Energy Minister
Optimism for Mexico’s energy sector amid challenging global scenario Mexico is set to receive some $7 billion in investment in the energy sector, the country’s Energy Minister Pedro Joaquín Coldwell...
View ArticleMultilatina Index: Brazil’s CSN is the growth winner
With a 14 percent surge in revenue to $1.3 billion, Brazilian metal, mining, cement and energy firm CSN is the definite growth champion in Latin Trade’s most recent Multilatina Index. The revenues of...
View ArticlePemex nearing sale of fertilizer unit
Fertilizers are non-core businesses for the oil company. Mexican state-owned oil firm Pemex is ready to spin-off its fertilizer business. In the opinion of rating agencies, despite its strong recent...
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