LatAm Pre-Open: a hawkish Fed signaled rate hikes, not cuts, sinking Wall Street and gold - but Latin America held firm, with Peru's Credicorp up 6%.

LatAm Pre-Open: on Fed day investors fled tech for banks - chips fell 6%, JPMorgan rose 3.7% - as 4.2% inflation killed rate-cut hopes and oil kept crashing.

US stocks tumbled Wednesday as traders anticipated a Federal Reserve rate hike, with policymakers projecting rising interest rates later this year. New Fed Chair Kevin Warsh…

FOMC kept rates unchanged, removed forward guidance, added emphasis on reaching the inflation target, and provided a hawkish dot plot.

LatAm Pre-Open: a hawkish Fed signaled rate hikes, not cuts, sinking Wall Street and gold - but Latin America held firm, with Peru's Credicorp up 6%.

Stocks fell sharply and bond yields jumped after the Federal Reserve, in Kevin Warsh's debut, held rates steady but signalled a likely increase later this year

Ibovespa falls a third day to 168,453 as a hawkish US Fed jolts world markets, even as Brazil's central bank delivers its third straight rate cut to 14.25%.

The Latin American Pulse for Thursday, June 18, 2026: a hawkish Fed jolts Wall Street, yet Latin America is the world's most resilient market.