March 30, 2006
Venezuela's risk indicator keeps decreasing and shows historical low values

(Agencia Bolivariana de Noticias) - "The Venezuelan sovereign risk indicator EMBI+ reached a historical low yesterday at 206 basic points (bp) and showed a real decrease of -7 points compared to its closing on Tuesday 28th March 2006 when it was 213 pb.

This information was taken from the Ministry of Finance's daily bulletin Informe Venezuela (Venezuelan Report).

The Emerging Markets' Bonds Index is a financial risk indicator that measures percentage points of local bonds over US Treasure Bonds, pondering the most transacted values in the market (...)

The Venezuelan risk indicator has been at its lowest level for more than five years, it even remains a few points lower than Brazil's, which is the continent's economical power".