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(Bloomberg) -- The war in Ukraine has upended European Union security and, over time, could push more countries to join the euro region, the European Bank of Reconstruction and Development said.

(Bloomberg) -- Atento SA, the Latin American call-center giant, is exploring options including a sale, according to people with knowledge of the matter. Sao Paulo-based Atento is working with Goldman Sachs Group Inc.

(Bloomberg) -- African hard-currency sovereign debt, all of it rated junk, is finding buyers as investors look to shield their cash from the fallout of the war in Ukraine.

(Bloomberg) -- Sign up for the New Economy Daily newsletter, follow us @economics and subscribe to our podcast. Look at inflation rates, and the biggest economies of North and South America appear to be in the same ballpark. Look at interest rates, and they might as well be on different planets.

(Bloomberg) -- The oil boom has added fuel to a rally for Angola’s kwanza that’s made it the world’s best-performing currency against the dollar.

(Bloomberg) -- A world-beating emerging bond fund from Jeffrey Gundlach’s DoubleLine Capital LP is looking for bargains in Latin America after outperforming peers with an unusual strategy that insulated it from Russia’s war in Ukraine.

(Bloomberg) -- Argentina’s inflation accelerated in February at its fastest pace in nearly a year, surpassing forecasts and challenging the government’s targets for this year in its preliminary agreement with the International Monetary Fund. Consumer prices rose 4.

(Bloomberg) -- An interest-rate increase amid a crisis in Ukraine is likely to hurt South Korea’s economic recovery, a Bank of Korea member said at last month’s board meeting, suggesting a growing headwind for the central bank’s push to tighten policy further.

The governor of the Bank of Namibia (BoN), Johannes !Gawaxab, says the central bank is looking at possibilities of working with various ministries and agencies in a bid to...

(Bloomberg) -- The International Monetary Fund said that Ukraine likely needs $4.8 billion in external financing amid a deep recession this year and is working on setting up a fund to help countries steer more resources to the nation invaded by Russia.