Latin America: Ten months good, two months bad…

...and what of 1998? Most of 1997 was a borrower's market in Latin America but the October market upheavals took the shine off bonds. Structured deals fared least badly and may prove the best way upwards in the new year. Michael Marray reports.

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Latin American borrowers who took advantage of the tight spreads and long tenors available during most of 1997 have cause for satisfaction. In the wake of fourth-quarter bond-market volatility, doubts have been raised about their level of access to international capital markets in the next year.

Before the Asian-induced October upheavals, it had been a year of steadily tightening spreads and lengthening tenors, with most deals heavily oversubscribed in spite of a record supply coming onto the market.

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