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  Mercado Libre the Amazon of Latin America Mercado Libre (MELI) falls somewhere along that spectrum, even though we’re a big, big fan of Latin American wrestling culture. Oh, (*checks notes*) wait, that’s Lucha Libre. It turns out Mercado Libre is the biggest e-commerce company south of the U.S. border, and is also rapidly growing its fintech business in e-payments and nontraditional banking as well.  Source: NANALIZE The comparisons to Amazon, PayPal, Square, masked wrestlers et al are inevitable. Readers have been nudging us to cover this $50 billion company for a while. It’s also one of top three holdings in the ARK Fintech Innovation ETF (ARKF), and even appears among the stocks that make up the popular tech-heavy Invesco QQQ ETF (QQQ) that tracks the Nasdaq-100 Index.  Mercado Libre was founded way back in 1999, just five years after Jeff Bezos launched Amazon, by a guy named Marcos Galperin, operating out of a garage in Buenos Aires. A graduate of Stanford Graduate Schoo

MercadoLibre Still the King of Latin American E-Commerce The past three months have been tumultuous ones for MercadoLibre, Inc. (NASDAQ: MELI). The company reported fabulous results for its second quarter, and the stock promptly fell 10% on the devaluation of the Venezuelan currency, the bolivar. This currency move resulted in a $25 million hit to MercadoLibre's net income for the quarter. In addition, a report that online juggernaut Amazon.com (NASDAQ: AMZN) was preparing to expand its operations in Brazil sent MercadoLibre's stock plunging last month. (Latin America Business). When the Latin American e-commerce leader reported its financial results earlier this month, investors were looking for reassurance that these exterior forces hadn't derailed MercadoLibre from its growth in the region and that the company could still thrive in a challenging environment. Shareholders weren't disappointed, and the stock jumped 13% on the results. MercadoLibre repor