MercoPress. South Atlantic News Agency
Stories for January 2006
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Tuesday, January 31st 2006 - 20:00 UTC
Fed raises rates to 4.5%, highest since April 2001
Arguing that possible increases in resource utilization as well as elevated energy prices have the potential to add inflation pressures the Federal Reserve Open Market Committee decided Tuesday to raise its target for the federal funds rate by 25 basis points to 4.5%.
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Tuesday, January 31st 2006 - 20:00 UTC
OPEC keeps quota unchanged until next meeting
The Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries, (OPEC) oil ministers decided Tuesday in Vienna to keep the official quota of 28 million bpd while the group's second biggest producer Iran, locked in a dispute over its atomic program, gave assurances it would not halt its exports.
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Tuesday, January 31st 2006 - 20:00 UTC
Dollar and assets bubble, challenges for new Fed chief
The United States Senate approved Tuesday the nomination of Ben Bernanke to be the next chairman of the Federal Reserve, generally considered the most influential economic policy job in the world.
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Monday, January 30th 2006 - 20:00 UTC
More than 500 Patagonian toothfish marked for research
Since 2004, the National Institute for Fisheries Research and Development (INIDEP) has been carrying on a capture-mark-recapture programme for Patagonian toothfish (Dissostichus eleginoides), aimed at providing relevant information about this resource management in the South-western Atlantic ocean.
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Monday, January 30th 2006 - 20:00 UTC
Pinochet Daughter Drops U.S. Asylum Bid
The oldest daughter of former dictator Gen. Augusto Pinochet returned to Chile Saturday to face tax evasion charges after dropping a surprise bid for political asylum in the United States, where she said she lived “a nightmare.”
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Monday, January 30th 2006 - 20:00 UTC
First Sea Lord returns
ADMIRAL Sir Alan West, First Sea Lord and Chief of the Naval Staff, back in the Falklands last week says that visiting the Islands is, “always a very emotional experience.”
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Saturday, January 28th 2006 - 20:00 UTC
Abrupt slowdown of US economy in last quarter
United States economic growth slowed to its weakest rate in three years in the last quarter of 2005 ending the year with an overall expansion of 3.5%, down from the 4.2% of 2004.
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Saturday, January 28th 2006 - 20:00 UTC
“Green fuel” car launched in Mexican market
A Honda hybrid sedan was launched Friday in the Mexican market, which became the first Latin American country to offer consumers a car that runs on both gasoline and electricity.
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Saturday, January 28th 2006 - 20:00 UTC
London shooting: Brazil sends another mission
Brazil will send another mission to the United Kingdom to investigate the death of the national Jean Charles de Menezes, shot dead by British police who mistook him for a terrorist, the Foreign Affairs ministry announced Friday in Brasilia.
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Saturday, January 28th 2006 - 20:00 UTC
Lowest unemployment in Chile since 1998
Unemployment in Chile dropped to 6.9% during the last quarter of 2005 ending the twelve months with 8%, the lowest since 1998 reported Friday the Chilean Statistics Institute.
