The Beyond Brics blog today has a roundup of Latin American currency and market news. It lands squarely in the boring-but-maybe-important category, so we’re doing you the favor of summarizing and condensing their condensed summary. Brazil: inflation continues to rise, which caused the stock market to fall 1.7 percent, and Brazilian currency continues to trade at an absurdly-high 1.66 reals to the dollar.

Mexico’s market fell 0.7 percent overall. If you’ve got money tied up in Chile’s IPSA or something, here’s a link to the rest.