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IBOVESPA
177,816
▲ +0.91%
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USD/BRL
5.0096
sub-R$5.04
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IPSA · CHILE
10,825.53
▲ +2.48%
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MERVAL · ARG
2,846,220
closed · holiday
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COLCAP · COL
2,132.79
▲ +2.37%
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IPC · MÉXICO
68,261
▼ −0.11%
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BRENT
$98.96
▼ −4.4%
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S&P 500
7,473
closed · futs +0.78%
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Brazil enters Tuesday with the technical bounce confirmed and the currency story intact. The Ibovespa reclaimed the daily Ichimoku cloud floor at 177,816 (+0.91%) off an oversold stochastic, and USD/BRL broke through 5.04 cloud resistance from the wrong side at 5.0096 — the real's strongest print since April. The overnight tape complicates the picture: South Korea's Kospi fell more than 6% from a fresh record on AI-concentration worries, but S&P 500 futures rose 0.78% and Nasdaq 100 futures advanced 1.14% ahead of Wall Street's return. Domestic catalysts: Current Account at 07:30 and FDI, with WTI at $91.54 (−5.24%) a clean disinflation positive but a direct Petrobras headwind.
Read the full Morning Call →Brazil recovered Friday's full 1% slide in one session on an open-equals-low, close-equals-high candle. Banks led on softer yields and Brent's drop below $100 — Itaú over 1.5%, Bradesco over 1%, and B3 over 1.5% after JPMorgan raised its target. Petrobras was the lone drag at −2%. The real held near R$5.01, sub-R$5.04 for the first sustained move in weeks.
Full report →Also this morning — the trade ministry posted a record US$30.4 billion year-to-date trade surplus through the third week of May, up 32.9% on 2025, with exports of $140 billion against imports of $109.6 billion and a $72.1 billion full-year projection. The BCB's Focus survey lifted 2026 inflation to 5.04% — an eleventh straight weekly increase that keeps the print above the 4.5% target ceiling, with the year-end Selic consensus held at 13.25%.
The IPC closed essentially flat at 68,261 (−0.11%) on a narrow inside candle — Mexico sat out the regional oil rally, having already re-rated on Friday's EU trade deal. The week's real catalyst is the first US–Mexico USMCA review round opening this week, ahead of the July 1 three-country Joint Review. April exports separately set a record $72.04 billion, up 32.6%, with non-oil sales to the U.S. up 34.8%.
Full report →Chile posted the strongest move in Latin America on an open-at-low, close-near-high candle: copper's anchor amplified the oil-relief rally, with a softer dollar and cheaper crude firming the copper-sensitive peso and the metal near $6.14/lb. The Q1 GDP contraction of 0.5% paradoxically strengthens the case for a June rate cut toward 4.25%, with Cochilco lifting its 2026 copper forecast to $5.55/lb.
Full report →BYMA was closed for the national holiday, with the Merval's standing close at Friday's 2,846,220 (−1.08%). The week still landed best in Latin America at +5.1% in pesos, country risk fell to 514 bp — closest to the symbolic 500 since the 2018 cycle — and the IMF cleared its Second Review on May 21, releasing $1 billion and lifting cumulative disbursements to $15.8 billion.
Full report →Also from Argentina — BYD broke into the top 10 car brands as the only Chinese marque, climbing from 10th in March to 9th in April with 1,701 registrations even as overall vehicle output fell 18.6% year-to-date. Spain's Plus Ultra began Madrid–Buenos Aires service on May 23, becoming the fourth operator on the corridor, with launch fares from $640.
The sharpest session in weeks reclaimed the 2,095–2,108 cluster as oversold readings met the Iran relief; Brazil rose the same day, but Colombia snapped back harder from a lower base. The May 31 first round is six days out under an active poll blackout — Invamer's last read had Iván Cepeda at 44.3%, keeping a June 21 runoff the base case. Separately, the government paid record 15% short-term rates as gross debt hit 63% of GDP, the steepest borrowing cost since 2011.
Full report →Tuesday's Pulse opens with six institutional decisions across the Monday reopen: Bolivia's government reversed its weekend denial to admit a death in the failed La Paz–Oruro corridor as the Senate stripped state-of-exception limits, and President Paz cut his own salary 50% in a fourth week of mounting protests. Codelco's new chair takes office today with an external-audit mandate as the inflated-output scandal widens, the Ibovespa broke a six-week slide, and Lula began preventive radiotherapy — 15 sessions over three weeks, with no restriction on his daily activities. Brazil also moves to end the 6x1 work scale with constitutional votes on May 27–28, mirroring Mexico's 40-hour-week phase-in toward 2030, and France's Loxam agreed to buy 50.3% of Brazil's Mills for R$3.8 billion at a 22% premium. In Washington, a fresh USCIS memo tightens green-card discretion for Brazilians and other Latin Americans on tourist or student visas.
Read the Latin American Pulse →São Paulo's Museum of the Portuguese Language turns 20 — more than 5.3 million visitors and 24 temporary shows since its 2006 opening inside the historic Luz Station, with this anniversary year anchored by a 473-work exhibition on Brazilian funk that traces the movement from 1960s–70s soul parties to its Rio and São Paulo identity. The institution received Brazil's Order of Cultural Merit in 2025 and was the country's first museum dedicated to intangible heritage.
Beyond Brazil, Latin America led 2025 global recorded-music growth at +17.1% — the fastest-rising region for a 16th consecutive year, with Brazil (8th, +14.1%) and Mexico (10th, +13.3%) entering the global top 10 for the first time as regional Mexican, Brazilian funk and reggaeton travelled worldwide. Streaming powered 88.1% of the region's revenue, well above the global share.
And the foreign ministry is intensifying a push to reclaim Brazilian fossils held abroad — around 20 restitution cases now underway across 14 countries, with the United States holding eight, Germany four and the United Kingdom three. Recent wins include the Ubirajara jubatus dinosaur in 2023 and 45 Araripe Basin fossils from Switzerland this year, framed by officials as a fight against scientific colonialism.
Monday's four regional intelligence briefs sketch the world Latin America wakes up to. In Asia, the Nikkei hit an intraday record at 65,158 (+2.87%) on the same oil drop, and India hosts the Quad in New Delhi today with Hormuz top of the agenda. In Europe, Chancellor Merz floated an “associate membership” for Ukraine with EU mutual-defence cover while the DAX (+2.01%) led the developed-market tape into the US-less day. In the U.S. & Canada, the Fed opened its Warsh era ahead of a heavy data week and a record 45 million Americans travelled the holiday despite four-year-high gas prices. In Africa, Benin's Romuald Wadagni was sworn in as president in a rare peaceful handover, while the DRC's Bundibugyo Ebola outbreak spread across three provinces with no vaccine available.
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