Tag: foreign loans and bonds

• Tuesday, April 21st 2020 - 10:15 UTC

  Major asset managers reject Argentina's proposal to overhaul US$ 66bn foreign debt

  

  A group of major asset managers who are creditors to Argentina have rejected the government’s proposal aimed at overhauling US$66.2 billion of its foreign-law debt, saying it inflicted an unjust amount of financial pain on international bondholders.

• Tuesday, March 13th 2012 - 07:26 UTC

  Brazil extends 6% tax on foreign loans and bonds to help weaken the Real

  

  Brazil extended on Monday a 6% tax on foreign loans and bonds issued abroad by local companies to include lending with duration of as long as five years, the third measure taken this month to weaken the Real. Since March 1, the currency has weakened 5.6%.