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Stories for July 2005

• Thursday, July 7th 2005 - 21:00 UTC

  Ecuador the riskiest Latinamerican country

  Ecuador became this week the riskiest country in Latinamerica according to JP Morgan Emerging Markets Bond Index, EMBI, with a 799 basic points rating.

• Thursday, July 7th 2005 - 21:00 UTC

  UK lifts ban on sale of spares to Argentine Navy

  United Kingdom lifted the ban on the sale of Rolls Royce spares to the Argentine Navy vessels, according to reports in the Buenos Aires newspaper, Ambito Financiero

• Thursday, July 7th 2005 - 21:00 UTC

  Punta Arenas Standard Wool back in business

  Standard Wool from Punta Arenas is looking ahead to a full year's work in spite of the blaze which razed its wool deposits and equipment in February 2004.

• Thursday, July 7th 2005 - 21:00 UTC

  Sir Lawrence: “Clearly an Al-Qaida style attack”

  Four blasts rocked the London subway and tore open a packed double-decker bus during the morning rush hour Thursday, sending bloodied victims fleeing in the worst attack on London since World War II. At least 37 people were killed, U.S. officials said, and more than 700 wounded in the terror attacks.

• Thursday, July 7th 2005 - 21:00 UTC

  Bank of England and ECB leave rates unchanged

  The Bank of England resisted calls to cut the cost of borrowing on Thursday and held its main interest rate at 4,75% for the eleventh straight month. Members of the bank's Monetary Policy Committee announced the decision in spite of the four explosions in central London that caused at least 33 deaths and hundreds of injured.

• Thursday, July 7th 2005 - 21:00 UTC

  Argentine June inflation triggers controversy

  A day after it was officially announced that June's consumer price index in Argentina had jumped an unexpected 0,9%, Economy minister Roberto Lavagna tried on Thursday to sooth market expectations saying that “inflation is reasonably under control”.

• Thursday, July 7th 2005 - 21:00 UTC

  Argentina preparing the ground for IMF talks

  Just a few days away from the beginning of negotiations on a new stand by agreement Argentine officials demanded this week “coherence and predictability” from the International Monetary Fund.

• Wednesday, July 6th 2005 - 21:00 UTC

  Professor Freedman's Official History
  Falkland Islanders' Exploits Played Down

  The vital part played by Falklands Islanders in helping to win the 1982 war against their Argentine invaders sadly receives scant recognition in the recently-published Official History of the Falklands Campaign by Professor Sir Lawrence Freedman, Professor War Studies at King's College, London.

• Wednesday, July 6th 2005 - 21:00 UTC

  FT tops list of world's best newspapers

  The Financial Times topped a list of the world's best newspapers, according to a survey of executives, politicians, university lecturers, journalists and advertising professionals conducted by a Swiss-based consultant.

• Wednesday, July 6th 2005 - 21:00 UTC

  Bolivia to hold elections

  The Bolivian Senate on Tuesday approved the constitutional reforms OK'd by the lower house, setting the stage for early general elections in December which Bolivians hope will do something to defuse the bitter political conflict that has driven two presidents from office since October 2003.