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Latam FX, stocks eye weekly losses as Trump’s tariffs hit risk-taking – Markets

BRASILIA: Most Latin American currencies and stocks were set for weekly losses on Friday, as risk-sentiment remained weak after US President Donald Trump’s latest volley of tariffs, while markets also assessed an inflation reading out of the United States. Mexico’s peso hit its lowest level in over three weeks, with Friday’s decline of 0.5% setting the peso for its fourth straight day of declines. Brazil’s real weakened 0.4%, on pace for its first weekly decline in four. Investors in Latin America’s biggest economy would also be watching official data which...