{"id":65729,"date":"2018-09-17T00:00:01","date_gmt":"2018-09-17T04:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=65729"},"modified":"2018-09-16T23:24:34","modified_gmt":"2018-09-17T03:24:34","slug":"whats-next-for-latin-america","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/09\/2018\/whats-next-for-latin-america.html","title":{"rendered":"What\u2019s next for Latin America?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n(Harvest) If you\u2019re an investor, there\u2019s a lot to fret about in Latin America right now. NAFTA\u2019s future is up in the air. The region\u2019s two largest economies\u2013Mexico and Brazil\u2013have elected or are likely to elect populist presidents. Argentina is struggling with a massive financial squeeze and a run on its currency. Venezuela\u2019s terrible humanitarian crisis has led to riots and massive emigration into neighboring countries. Complicating matters is the strengthening U.S. dollar, which has put pressure on the cost of financing economic growth and on stock prices. You can see the impact of the latter in the charts below, which compare hedged and unhedged versions of the iShares MSCI Mexico ETF ( EWW , HEWW ) with the broad iShares MSCI Emerging Markets  ETF ( EEM , HEEM )<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hvst.com\/posts\/whats-next-for-latin-america-EgJT3dpP?utm_source=albourne&#038;utm_medium=social&#038;utm_campaign=HVST_content&#038;utm_term=cold&#038;utm_content=blackrock_latin_america\">To read this article:<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Harvest) If you\u2019re an investor, there\u2019s a lot to fret about in Latin America right now. NAFTA\u2019s future is up in the air. The region\u2019s two largest economies\u2013Mexico and Brazil\u2013have elected or are likely to elect populist presidents. Argentina is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-65729","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65729","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=65729"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65729\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65730,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65729\/revisions\/65730"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65729"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65729"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65729"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}