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Friday, July 25, 2008 Friday, July 25, 2008
Falkland Islands: Weekly Penguin News Update Last minute efforts to break global trade deadlock
Headlines: Remelia, Shaun and Nick join the ranks; Govt: ‘We want to keep BAS’; Councillor welcomes tax survey but defends increases; Jail ... The ministerial meeting in Geneva in the framework of the World Trade Organization (WTO) long-running Doha round talks has failed to break the deadlock and ...
Friday, July 25, 2008 Friday, July 25, 2008
Argentine farm row impacts strongly on industrial activity Massive housing rescue bill moves swiftly in US Congress
Industrial activity in Argentina during the month of June expanded 1.8% compared to the same month a year ago but dropped 4% against May as a consequence of the ... United States House of Representatives passed on Thursday a massive housing rescue bill that could help struggling homeowners get cheaper loans. The vote came ...
Friday, July 25, 2008 Friday, July 25, 2008
Argentine/NASA satellite will measure oceans’ salt levels Environmentalists’ concern with Chilean leg of Dakar rally
Argentine and NASA scientists hope a new satellite will help them better track global climate change by measuring salt levels on the surface of the world's ... Chilean environmentalists and public figures this week expressed concern about potential environmental threats posed by the Dakar off-roading rally, scheduled ...
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Financial markets can not govern us! Two insights into the “new” and the “old” Argentina
Appealing to common sense, experience and ethics nine distinguished European political personalities and former elected officials have sent a letter to the ... In early April, The Guardian published a piece by Latinamerican expert Richard Gott, on the new Argentina and its architects, as the title ...
Thursday, July 24, 2008 Thursday, July 24, 2008
London ambassador proposes sharing Malvinas resources Investment and exports behind Uruguay’s growth
“The only way (for Argentina) to take advantage of the Malvinas resources is to share them, but to share them you must have an agreement (with the UK) and ... Productive investment and exports have been behind the sustained growth of the Uruguayan economy since the crisis of 2002, according to Fernando Lorenzo head of ...
Thursday, July 24, 2008 Thursday, July 24, 2008
Arctic holds massive oil and gas reserves say US scientists Brazil to host Latam Caribbean integration summit in December
The Arctic could hold as much as 90 billion barrels of undiscovered oil and has as much undiscovered gas as all the reserves known to exist in Russia, US ... Brazilian president Lula da Silva extended an invitation to Latinamerican and Caribbean leaders to discuss regional integration and development in a meeting ...
Thursday, July 24, 2008 Thursday, July 24, 2008
Joint efforts to keep BAS operating from the Falklands Spanish King and Chavez to close “shut up” incident
The Falkland Islands government and British Antarctic Survey, BAS, are jointly looking into ways of keeping BAS operating from the Islands. Stanley’s ... Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez currently on a European tour is scheduled to meet Friday with Spain’s King Juan Carlos in Palma de Mallorca, where the ...
Thursday, July 24, 2008 Thursday, July 24, 2008
Brazil raises basic interest rate 75 basis points to 13% Moscow and Tokyo most expensive cities third year running
Brazil's central bank raised interest rates by 75 basis points to 13% on Wednesday, lifting borrowing costs for the third time in four months in a bid to ... Moscow and Tokyo top the list of the world's most expensive locations for the third year running, according to the annual report from consultants Mercer which ...
Thursday, July 24, 2008 Thursday, July 24, 2008
BHP Billiton makes huge copper discovery in Chile Brazil fertilizer industry expects record sales year
Anglo-Australian BHP Billiton has made a big discovery near its Escondida copper mine in Chile and has announced plans to spend 327 million US dollars to shore ... With high prices for soy and corn, which are spurring growers to plant more, the Brazilian fertilizer industry expects a record volume sales year. However ...
Thursday, July 24, 2008 Thursday, July 24, 2008
S&P raises Uruguay’s credit rating one level to BB- Cristina Kirchner replaces top aide and cabinet chief
Uruguay's debt rating was raised one level by Standard & Poor's, citing the country's economic expansion and international debt reduction. S&P lifted Uruguay's ... Argentine President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner named on Wednesday a former head of the social security agency Sergio Massa as cabinet chief, in a shake-up ...
Thursday, July 24, 2008 Wednesday, July 23, 2008
Argentina authorizes export of 45.000 tons of beef in July Gas from coal to fuel methanol plant in extreme south Chile
Argentina authorized the export of 45.000 tons of beef, following on June’s 51.000 tons but still short of orders for 77.000 tons. The monthly export ... Canada’s Methanex, the world’s main producer of methanol, is planning to convert coal into natural gas to supply its huge complex in the extreme ...
Wednesday, July 23, 2008 Wednesday, July 23, 2008
Bushconomics: “Wall Street got drunk and now has a hangover” US dollar close to medium-term equilibrium says IMF
President George W Bush has explained the credit crunch savaging United States financial markets by saying "Wall Street got drunk".

... 		The Euro is overvalued, while the US dollar's decline has brought it closer to its medium-term equilibrium in a decade, according to a top official from the ...
Wednesday, July 23, 2008 Wednesday, July 23, 2008
Argentine fisheries landings down 7% in first half of 2008 South American cities with serious personal safety problems
Argentine fisheries landings in the first half of 2008 totaled 536.075 tons, which is 7% less that the 574.000 tons of the same period last year. Fish and ... South American cities do not rank favorably with Mercer’s highest personal safety ranking based on internal stability, crime, effectiveness of law ...
   
 
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