Second, Chilean firms and banks can tap international capital markets only if two bond-rating agencies rate their paper as high as Chile's own government bonds.
Mr. Page's expected absence from the two events seems "highly unusual, " said Rick Devine, head of Devine Capital Partners LLC, a high-tech search boutique in Redwood City, Calif.
Slow growth, high unemployment, capital constraints and falling prices are frequently the symptoms of both despite inflation and deflation being two different ills.