Without reforms, financial markets’ optimism may crumble – and bring the house down.

Brazil’s bold economic reform agenda comes with several potential hitches.

The region’s GDP is expected to grow 1.7 percent but uncertainty looms, given global trade tensions, an oil-price drop, and other factors affecting emerging markets.

“I don’t think Russia cares two bits about the survival of the Maduro regime,” said AS/COA's Eric Farnsworth in The Washington Post referring to the relationship between the countries. 

Mexico’s president will present his 2019 budget proposal Saturday with markets increasingly skeptical about his leadership.