MercoPress. South Atlantic News Agency
Stories for November 2004
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Friday, November 12th 2004 - 20:00 UTC
President to go to Chile ?soon'
President Néstor Kirchner yesterday told Chilean Interior Minister José Miguel Insulza that he will visit the neighbouring country soon, in a gesture to further cool down a diplomatic spat sparked by the comments of Chilean Foreign Minister Ignacio Walker against the ruling Peronist party.
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Friday, November 12th 2004 - 20:00 UTC
Repsol YPF lifts Jan-Sep. gas output 12%.
Spanish oil company Repsol YPF increased its total gas production 11.8% to 598,000 barrels of oil equivalent a day (boe/d) in the first nine months of 2004 thanks to higher production in Bolivia, Argentina and Trinidad & Tobago, the company said in its earnings statement.
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Friday, November 12th 2004 - 20:00 UTC
Prince Harry in Argentine polo horse farm.
Prince Harry, son of Prince Charles and Lady Diana arrived this Friday in Buenos Aires where he will be working in a breeding polo horses' farm until the end of November.
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Friday, November 12th 2004 - 20:00 UTC
Brazilian businessmen criticize the Mercosur “anchor”.
A group of Brazilian businessmen will request the Lula de Silva administration to step back from Mercosur, interrupting the customs union process, reported this Friday Roberto Gianetti da Fonseca, International Relations Director from the all powerful Sao Paulo Federation of Industries, FIESP.
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Thursday, November 11th 2004 - 20:00 UTC
Further adjournment of cases against fishing company.
Falkland Islands Councillor and Director of Quark Fishing Ltd., Michael Summers, was in the Stanley Magistrate's court today, Wednesday, to hear his legal representative, Hugh Ferguson of Ledingham Chalmers, petition for a further adjournment of cases against his company, which first came to court on 13th October.
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Thursday, November 11th 2004 - 20:00 UTC
US basic rate climbs to 2% .
The United States Federal Reserve Open Market Committee rose this Wednesday its key federal funds rate by 25 points to 2%, the fourth increase since last June. Although markets were expecting such a move it's the highest since November 2001 when the Fed stated to lower rates in an effort to contain the effects of an incipient recession and the impact of the 9/11 terrorist attacks.
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Thursday, November 11th 2004 - 20:00 UTC
Chile's farm exports up 24% in nine months.
Chile's agricultural and forestry exports totalled $5.67 billion US dollars during the first nine months of this year, a 24% over the same period in 2003, reported the Agriculture Studies and Policies Office, Odepa.
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Thursday, November 11th 2004 - 20:00 UTC
ENAP profits in nine months: 145 million US dollars
ENAP, Chile's government owned oil company managed a consolidated profit equivalent to 145,3 million US dollars during the first nine months of 2004, but because of the strong appreciation of the Chilean currency against the US dollar, profits were actually 28,5% less than in the same period of 2003 (203,3 million US dollars).
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Thursday, November 11th 2004 - 20:00 UTC
“Educational gap” conditions Chile's growth
Chilean Finance minister Nicolas Eyzaguirre forecasted that if Chile sustains the average 5,5% growth of the last fifteen years, per capita income will reach 20,000 US dollars by 2020, but he also warned about the unfair distribution of wealth and insufficient educational opportunities.
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Thursday, November 11th 2004 - 20:00 UTC
Patagonia Mapuches reject Benetton offer.
Indigenous mapuche communities in Argentine Patagonia rejected a donation of 2,500 hectares from the Benetton brothers arguing that the disputed lands are theirs by ancestral rights.
