Colombia

Goldman Sachs has started coverage of Itau Corpbanca (ADR) (NYSE: ITCB) with a Buy rating and a price target of $14, implying an upside of 18 percent, on growth potential and synergy benefits. Itau Corpbanca, which was formed with the merger of Itaú Unibanco's Chilean operation and CorpBanca, is...

When commodities swooned over the past two years, plenty of emerging markets and the corresponding exchange-traded funds felt the pain. The Global X MSCI Colombia ETF (NYSE: GXG) was among those ETFs, losing an average of 34 percent in 2014 and 2015. Commodities' Swoon And Subsequent Rebound Those...

Although Brazil is the epicenter of the fears surrounding a recent outbreak of Zika Virus, Colombia’s Health Minister Alejandro Gaviria told Benzinga via email that Colombia now has 16,490 confirmed cases of the disease and there are likely thousands more unreported cases as well. Zika is...

This is how bad things have been in 2015 for Latin American stocks and the relevant exchange-traded funds trading in the United States: Of the single-country ETFs tracking Latin American economies, the Global X MSCI Argentina ETF (Global X Funds (NYSE: ARGT)) has been the best performer this year....

Investment opportunities in foreign markets are becoming more and more popular as countries become more developed. Investors have been particularly attracted to certain Latin American countries that have demonstrated tremendous potential and like many emerging markets; Latin America is seen as...

Colombian stocks closed slightly lower with the Colombian Stock Exchange losing about half a percent. Many U.S. investors probably did not notice and nor did they notice the seven-day winning streak that preceded Monday's loss. There was a time when ETFs with exposure to South America's second-...

Ever wondered what the leading exports of Antarctica or North Korea or the Solomon Islands are? Well you've come to the right place. Courtesy of the Wikimedia Commons and the Observatory of Economic Complexity, Benzinga has compiled an array of export tree maps from countries and regions around the...

As the U.S., Japan and some developed Europe nations come to grips with astronomically higher debt-to-GDP ratios and less-than-perfect credit ratings, investors looking for sound fiscal positions might do well to consider emerging markets. From Latin America to the Middle East to Southeast Asia,...