Economy

Although Brazil continues to be the undisputed leader in Latin America in terms of electronic commerce and payments, Colombia, which ranks third, behind Mexico, has been shortening the great advantage that the South American giant had on these fronts.And although for this year the country is expected to face a strong contraction of its economy, like the rest of the planet, e-commerce is expected to continue to grow an estimate of 89 percent by 2026, reaching sales of more than 14,000 million dollars, according to the most recent 'Latin American Electronic Commerce Report', prepared by the PayU online payment platform.(Also…

A survey of businessmen in the automotive sector during the month of December revealed that 60 percent believe that the company's economic situation is good, but this percentage is lower than that found in previous Andemos surveys. In this sense, 53 percent affirmed that the activity of the company was less than that of the previous month.For the next 12 months, 48 ​​percent of employers considering that the economic situation of the country will be the same; 35 percent, that it will be worse and 17 percent, that it will improve.(Also read: Do you see the prices of new cars…

If you have a credit card, it is best to keep it locked up and not use it, at least for the next few months. Why? Interests are through the roof and borrowing money could be much more expensive than it was in 2022.Since inflation has been rising month by month for almost two years -closed 2022 at 13.12 percent-, the Bank of the Republic has also been increasing its interest rates and between September 2021 and December 2022 they went from 1.75 to 12 percent.(Also read: CDT: What is it and how good is it as a savings option…

If one of the purposes for 2023 is have own houseThe announcement made by the Minister of Housing, Catalina Velasco, helped make this dream of thousands of families in the country a reality.The 'Mi Casa Ya' program, which was created in 2015 to benefit households that have income less than four monthly salaries (4,640,000 pesos), will be lost during the government of President Gustavo Petro, but will have several changes.(Also read: Are you looking for housing? This is the outlook for 2023 in Medellín and its surroundings) "The Mi Casa Ya program will continueIt is a robust program that has…