Colombia

Tesla Inc (NASDAQ: TSLA) CEO Elon Musk’s father says he’s been asked by a South American company to donate his sperm to women in Colombia. What Happened: The 76-year-old Errol Musk made the revelation in a recent interview with The Sun. He said he was asked by a company in Colombia to...

Former rebel Gustavo Petro won Sunday's runoff election, becoming the country's first leftist president along with Francia Márquez, the first Black female vice president in Colombia's history. Petro, former mayor of Bogotá, got 50.48% of the votes, while his...

Isiah Thomas of ISIAH International, LLC. and CEO of One World Products, Inc. (OTCQB: OWPC), the largest Black-controlled, fully-licensed hemp and cannabis producer in Colombia, announced plans to commercialize the vast carbon credit opportunities contained within the company’s...

On Monday, Blueberries Medical Corp. (CSE:BBM) (OTC: BBRRF) (FRA:1OA), the Canadian parent of Blueberries S.A.S., a Latin American licensed producer of naturally grown premium quality cannabis operating from central Colombia, reported its financial results for the quarter ended on March 31, 2022....

ISIAH International, One World Products Inc (OTCQB: OWPC), the largest Black-controlled, licensed hemp and cannabis producer in Colombia, and AMUNAFRO, the National Association of Mayors of Municipalities with Afro-Colombian populations, announced late Thursday that they had entered into ...

Flora Growth Corp. (NASDAQ: FLGC) announces the availability of a broadcast titled, "2022 Primed after 2021's Record M&A Deals." A record $5.9 trillion in M&A activity in 2021 may have reflected some pent-up demand from slower activity in the previous three years,...

Ships of all shapes and sizes rely heavily on navigational tools to sail the open seas; most wouldn't dare leave port without them. The same is true for logistics companies navigating freight markets. Visibility changes everything. As capacity and market demand change daily, logistics...

United Airlines Holdings (NASDAQ: UAL) and Kingsland Holdings have agreed to provide up to $250 million of four-year financing to Bogota, Colombia-based airline Avianca.  The debt is priced at 3%; interest will be structured as payment-in-kind (PIK) until maturity, granting Avianca greater...

Developing economies, such as Brazil, India and Thailand, have recently joined developed market counterparts in lowering interest rates. That should be good news because it indicates inflation is relatively modest in many developing regions and with rates having been higher throughout much of the...

ExpoCannabiz recently announced new updates to its inaugural three-day event in the Caribbean port city of Cartagena, Colombia, at the Cartagena Convention Center on May 9-11. The two-part program consists of a first-day Cannabis Investor Forum, followed by two days of the cannabis conference. More...

The Global X MSCI Colombia ETF (NYSE: GXG), the largest exchange traded fund tracking Colombian stocks, closed modestly higher Monday after the country held parliamentary elections. The election was the first in Colombian history to include the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, or FARC,...

A deal struck in late 2016 between the government and the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia rebels was thought to have brought down the numbers and quantities in connection with Colombia’s most notorious exported good, cocaine. According to a report by Statista, coca cultivation area...

After being drags on diversified emerging markets indexes and exchange-traded funds for several years, Latin American equities are leading this year's emerging markets resurgence. For example, several of this year's best-performing single-country ETFs are Latin America funds, a group that...

The Global X MSCI Colombia ETF (NYSE: GXG) is one of this year's best-performing single-country emerging markets exchange-traded funds, with a gain of 30.4 percent. Bullishness for GXG and Colombian stocks and GXG is largely attributable to rebounding commodities prices, but another catalyst...

Once lagging Latin American stocks are primary drivers of this year's emerging markets resurgence. Just look at the Brazil- and Mexico-heavy iShares S&P Latin America 40 Index (ETF) (NYSE: ILF), which is up 39.1 percent year-to-date, or more than double the returns offered by the MSCI...