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🔔 The dashboard: Brazil’s benchmark stock index Ibovespa gained 5.91 percent this week. Since entering a bear market in July, Brazilian stocks have recovered 17.31 percent. Meanwhile, the Brazilian Real gained 1.74 percent against the U.S. Dollar this week.
In the first six months of 2022, issuance of ESG-labeled debt bonds in Latin America reached USD 6.6 billion, about half of what was issued in the first half of last year. The dip mainly occurred in Q2, according to a Bank of America client report.
Due to “adverse global market conditions,” labeled bond issuance in the region registered a 82-percent drop in Q2 2022 versus a year prior. The quarter-on-quarter drop reached 72 percent.
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