The 2025 start has not been easy for markets in the world and especially for Wall Street. The uncertainty for the return to the White House of Donald Trump (and later for its tariff policy) has marked a first frantic trimester and without a clear direction.
(Read: The ABC of the project that proposes changes to retention and self -retention at the source).
In fact, this Thursday, April 17, the New York Stock Exchange ended a volatile week (this Friday was holiday in the US “Reciprocal tariffs”and by Investor fears to a possible recession.
The stock market began in green, animated by the decision of the US government. “Reciprocal tariffs” to various electronic devices and components, including semiconductors and ‘smartphones’.
(Also: The Kilk under the manga of China when negotiating a commercial truce with the US.).
However, on Wednesday Wall Street suffered strong falls again and the Nasdaq technological fell 3 % dragged by the Nvidia chips manufacturer, which lost almost 7 %.
The fall of Nvidia occurred after announcing a quarterly charge in its accounts of up to 5.5 billion dollars to be able to export its new H20 chips to China and other Asian countries, as the United States requires a license.
Howeverthis has been the trend that has marked the operations in the market all year.
High volatilities have been daily bread, while investors try to find security in new geopolitical and commercial events.
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Not everything is bad
But despite uncertainty and volatility, some actions have also been favored and have achieved important increases.
Recently, the online Bloomberg portal published The list of the actions of Latin American companies with better performance in the New York Stock Exchange in the first quarter.
(Besides: UU. Cesar exports of cars and auto parts to Colombia since May).
According to the publication, this is because investors are in the search for non -American alternative assets.
The Ecopetrol title appears on the list. According to the medium, the action of the Colombian oil company grew between January and March 31.82% and was behind Banco do Brazil.
Next, the 10 Latin American actions with the greatest stock market capitalization on Wall Street:
Banco do Brazil: 34.03% (Brazil)
Ecopetrol: 31.82% (Colombia)
Continental ark: 27.27% (Mexico)
Coca Cola FEMSA: 25.99% (Mexico)
AMBEV: 27.95% (Brazil)
Electrobras: 24.13% (Brazil)
Itaú: 21.98% (Brazil)
JBS: 20.71% (Brazil)
Santander: 20.46% (Brazil)
Antofagasta PLC: 19.48% (Chile)
