El Salvador confounds critics with bond repayment
El Salvador repaid an $800 million Eurobond this week, ending speculation over whether the country’s soured bitcoin...
Ken Stibler
Ken Stibler is a contributor covering finance and economics across emerging markets with a special focus on Latin America.
Ken is currently pursuing an MPA in International Development and Economic Policy at George Washington University and has a passion for emerging and frontier markets that developed while he was working with the US State Department, the World Bank and others. You can reach Ken at ken@frontiermarkets.co or on linkedin.
Emerging markets attract $1.1 billion a day as sentiment shifts
Investors are pouring money into emerging market assets at a near-record pace as currency resilience and China’s...
Brazil and Argentina revive common currency plan
Brazil and Argentina have agreed to discuss creating a common currency, reviving a goal held for...
Romania outpaces struggling neighbors on regional reshoring, stable EU relations
Romania is quietly outpacing the economies of stagnating neighbors as Bucharest benefits from reshoring, EU funding and...
Zelensky cracks down on corruption
Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky oversaw the departure of 15 officials this week as allegations of graft grew,...
Azerbaijan tests Russia’s resolve in the Caucasus, highlighting Moscow’s waning influence on its periphery
Azerbaijan is blocking Armenian access to its contested Nagorno-Karabakh enclave and testing Russia’s resolve in the process,...
Enhanced dollar controls slam the battered Iraqi economy
Iraq’s economy is reeling after stricter controls on wire transfers targeting Iran led to a sharp rise in import...
Fall in Hungary’s overheated property market exposes finance-sector vulnerabilities
Hungary’s housing market, the fastest growing in the EU for the past decade, is finally seeing...
US tech outsourcing saps talent from Latin America’s startups
Startups across Latin America are struggling to attract and retain tech workers as US outsourcing creates a...
Coup attempt shakes Brazil, but long-term fallout remains unlikely
Brazil’s capital was recovering from a January 8th insurrection that saw thousands of ex-President Jair...
China’s Belt and Road Initiative evolves amid a funding slowdown
China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) has seen a slowdown in funding as megaprojects have...
Russia moves to bolster economy as the costs of war and sanctions become clearer
Strained by the rising costs of its war on Ukraine, the Russian government said that it...
