{"id":235536,"date":"2026-01-13T11:17:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-13T11:17:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/235536\/"},"modified":"2026-01-13T11:17:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-13T11:17:09","slug":"venezuela-surge-leaves-slim-pickings-in-em-distressed-debt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/235536\/","title":{"rendered":"Venezuela Surge Leaves Slim Pickings in EM Distressed Debt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ArticleBodyText_articleBodyContent__17wqE typography_articleBody___5jDr\" data-component=\"paragraph\">The ouster of Venezuelan leader Nicolas Maduro drove an outsize<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/features\/2026-01-07\/wall-street-eyes-venezuela-investments-oil-assets-after-maduro-ouster\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" class=\"media-ui-Link_link-tVkXhPLPofs-\" data-component=\"link\"> rally<\/a> in the country\u2019s bonds, making the already shrinking universe of deep-distress opportunities in emerging-market debt even smaller.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ArticleBodyText_articleBodyContent__17wqE typography_articleBody___5jDr\" data-component=\"paragraph\">Sri Lanka and Ghana have seen their dollar bonds rise well out of distressed territory in the past few months, while remaining defaulted notes \u2014 such as Venezuela and Lebanon \u2014 have already delivered strong gains at the start of 2026. The tighter spreads are making investors more selective and targeting options including in Africa and Ukraine. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The ouster of Venezuelan leader Nicolas Maduro drove an outsize rally in the country\u2019s bonds, making the already&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":235537,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[1911,1577,114,1575,184,1576,85,19127,46,88,190,29584,16212,18413,78624],"class_list":{"0":"post-235536","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-economy","8":"tag-africa","9":"tag-bonds","10":"tag-business","11":"tag-debt","12":"tag-economy","13":"tag-emerging-markets","14":"tag-il","15":"tag-international-monetary-fund","16":"tag-israel","17":"tag-lebanon","18":"tag-markets","19":"tag-sri-lanka","20":"tag-us-dollar-spot","21":"tag-venezuela","22":"tag-zambia"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235536","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=235536"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235536\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/235537"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=235536"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=235536"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=235536"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}