The Second Option

Welcome back to the Domingo Brief! The cast this week: Morgan Stanley and Goldman Sachs are paying to break a country's exchange monopoly Revolut and Nu: a licence won, an answer three days later An IMF loan clears Congress, and the diesel subsidy is gone within the week Cox moves the control room of a Spanish energy empire across the Atlantic Walmart stocks a vitamin line that was invented to order, paperwork included The World Bank approves a loan for hiring, not building Claudia Sheinbaum budgets 11,400 kilometers of road, then promises a governor every pothole in her state Prosus backs a startup that reads a restaurant's own security cameras This week's poll: which country shows up hardest at the New York City Marathon Plus much more, including the teachers splitting a surplus their own cooperative earned, the trading technology London Stock Exchange Group is supplying to the new challenger, and a $150M line for an exporter's lender, each story in about half a minute.

Each Sunday issue of the Domingo Brief curates the most important stories shaping Latin America — economics, politics, business, and markets — with original Latinometrics data analysis on every story, plus venture-capital and startup funding updates, a trivia question, and curated reading picks sourced from the best local and international outlets.