MercoPress. South Atlantic News Agency
Stories for 2002
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Friday, September 27th 2002 - 21:00 UTC
Penguin News Friday Update
Headlines: Johnston says 'sorry' for Argentina trip blunder / Falklands filming starts Saturday / New face new show / Sorry state of sewage / Sodexho lose value.
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Friday, September 27th 2002 - 21:00 UTC
Actualización Penguin News
Titulares: Johnston se disculpa por la torpeza del viaje a Argentina / Filmación en Falklands comienza el sábado / Cara nueva, programa nuevo / Lamentable estado en
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Wednesday, September 25th 2002 - 21:00 UTC
Fed keeps rates unchanged
The US Federal reserve decided this Tuesday to leave US interest rates unchanged at its lowest level in 41 years, but warned once again that the world's richest economy was at risk of further weakness particularly given “heightened political tensions”.
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Wednesday, September 25th 2002 - 21:00 UTC
Chileans celebrate in Argentina
According to press reports over 20,000 tourists crossed to Argentina during Chile's two days national independence holiday, Wednesday 18th and Thursday 19th that many Chileans extended until last Sunday.
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Wednesday, September 25th 2002 - 21:00 UTC
Financial storm in Brazil
With just two weeks to the presidential election that according to polls anticipates a possible clear victory in the first round of opposition candidate Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva the Brazilian currency is plummeting, financial markets are sliding and investors rejecting Brazilian bonds.
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Wednesday, September 25th 2002 - 21:00 UTC
“Elections can be advanced”
Following the growing paralysis of his administration and with international credit totally non existent and the country in the verge of defaulting with multilateral organizations such as the IMF, Argentine president Eduardo Duhalde admitted to Brazilian television that “presidential elections scheduled for next March can be advanced for December or January”, but this depends on the Judiciary branch.
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Wednesday, September 25th 2002 - 21:00 UTC
Markets for Argentine produce
Economy Nobel Prize winner Joseph Stiglitz in a long column published in the Financial Times said that Argentina needs the opening of foreign markets if the country is to recover its real economy.
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Tuesday, September 24th 2002 - 21:00 UTC
Sheep are coming back in Patagonia
Following the devaluation of the Argentine currency and the strong world market for wool and lamb, Patagonia sheep farmers are again enthusiastic and timidly beginning to invest.
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Tuesday, September 24th 2002 - 21:00 UTC
Claims of hake licensing “irregularities” in Argentina
A report from the University of Buenos Aires, UBA, on 25 years of fisheries licensing with the identification of serious “irregularities”, and which apparently has disappeared, has been requested by a Justicialista Senator from the province of Chubut.
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Tuesday, September 24th 2002 - 21:00 UTC
Duhalde rejects advancing election
President Eduardo Duhalde administration rejected once again demands to advance the Argentine general election for next December, instead of March 2003 as scheduled in the official electoral calendar.
