Bond recovery takes hold

Led by imaginative sovereign issues, Latin American bond markets made a remarkable recovery this year. Corporates are now joining the bandwagon as sovereign yields come down. Felix Salmon reports.

Latin American bond markets make
a remarkable recovery this year.
Bankers are reminded of the haydays
of ’93 and ’97.


WHAT A DIFFERENCE a year makes. In mid-November 2002, JPMorgan’s EMBI Global was trading at a stripped spread of 774 basis points over treasuries. Brazil was at 1,737bp over, yielding more than 20% – and even that constituted a significant improvement from the low point of the electioneering season, when the markets were petrified at the prospect of Lula winning the presidential vote.

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