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The Rio Times LatAm Market Brief

Friday, July 24, 2026  ·  Latin American Financial & Expat Intelligence

By Matthias Camenzind, Publisher

Wall Street sneezed. Latin America caught a cold.

A 1.21% slide in the S&P 500 and a 12% jump in the VIX sent a risk-off wave through the region — every major market closed red. Brazil fell least, down just 0.46%, shielded by Vale and Petrobras as Brent crude touched US$100 on Red Sea attacks. Mexico took the worst of it, off 1.56%. A global scare, not a local one.

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The state of the continent

Good morning. Some days the story is made in Brasília or Buenos Aires. Thursday's was made in New York.

A sharp Wall Street sell-off — the S&P 500 down 1.21%, the VIX up 12% — rolled straight through Latin America, and every major index closed lower. Brazil's Ibovespa slipped just 0.46% to 176,724,...

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🇺🇸🇶🇦 Why is America’s key air base in Qatar suddenly empty?

The US has completed the evacuation of all aircraft from its Al Udeid Air Base in Qatar due to the threat of fresh Iranian missile strikes on the strategic facility, open sources reveal as the Pentagon keeps mum on the matter.

Satellite imagery reveals a rapid reduction in US military aircraft stationed at the base. The count of parked planes, which included vital assets like KC-135 aerial refueling tankers and military transports, dropped from 17 to just three, before ultimately plummeting to zero.

📌 The planes have reportedly been redeployed to Ramon Airbase near the city of Eilat in southern Israel.

The reported evacuation of the Al Udeid Air Base, one of the largest American military facilities in West Asia, comes amid rising military tensions between Iran and the United States in the region.

Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps claimed last week that its Aerospace Force ...