Capital markets: CVRD issues landmark convertible

Latin America’s largest issuers have for a while been competing on pretty much a level playing field with their competitors in fully developed countries. That’s important for Brazilian miner Companhia Vale do Rio Doce, which in the wake of its acquisition of Canada’s Inco is now one of the world’s four largest mining companies, alongside BHP Billiton, Rio Tinto, and Anglo American.

With that sort of competition, no company wants to have to overcome a zip-code problem before it can start to compete. But until now CVRD has always had a certain Brazilian air to it. Sometimes, that’s an advantage: given how liquid Brazil’s banks are means that it can generally borrow money at razor-thin spreads. But more often it’s still a disadvantage when it comes to raising international capital.

Until now.

With its issuance in June of $1.9

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