Repsol open to an out-of-court YPF compensation package though Argentine laws and cash shortages obstacles to any deal.

Stronger trading-related revenue and higher income from its U.S. retail banking unit drives up Canadian bank's profits.

Latin America CEO says IPO shelved after access to credit eased.

Halliburton says its Latin American margins will be weighed down this year by the reduction in activity at two Mexican projects. 

Dilma Rousseff has ordered the Federal Police to investigate the source of a rumor that sent thousands of poor Brazilians running to state bank branches seeking payment of a monthly family stipend.

The Andean nation closed 2012 with oil reserves of 2.3 billion barrels, up 5.2% from 2011, and good for 6.9 years more. as foreign investment is falling from record.

The company, the country's third-largest homebuilder, will not meet a $6.4 million interest payment due since last month amid a slump in home sales.

Foreign investors flocked back to Brazil in early 2013, prompting the strongest stock market inflows in more than two years.

Weakest annual economic growth in three years bolsters expectations of rate cut.