MercoPress. South Atlantic News Agency
Stories for October 15th 2009
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Thursday, October 15th 2009 - 12:03 UTC
Dow Jones closest at its highest since October 2008: 10.015
The Dow Jones Industrial Average has topped the 10,000 mark for the first time in a year. World markets were boosted by the news that US bank JP Morgan Chase reported a better-than-expected profit in the July-to-September quarter. The Dow closed up 144.8 at 10,015.86, its highest since October 2008.
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Thursday, October 15th 2009 - 11:58 UTC
Bovespa index at new high, having advanced 76% so far this year
Brazil's Bovespa stocks index and currency, the Real, extended recent rallies Wednesday to end at fresh highs not seen in more than a year. The main Sao Paulo stocks index ended 2.4% higher at a 16-month high of 66,201 points.
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Thursday, October 15th 2009 - 11:55 UTC
Argentina’s annual inflation estimated by private consultants in 14%
Argentine inflation was 0.7% in September according to the official controversial Statistics office, Indec. The figure released Wednesday as has been happening for years was disputed by private consultants that estimate an average between 0´9% and 1.3%.
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Thursday, October 15th 2009 - 07:56 UTC
Uruguayan presidential hopefuls are “vain”, “impulsive” and “egocentric”
A graphology profile of Uruguay’s presidential candidates for the coming October 25th election has surfaced such adjectives as “impulsive” and “egocentric”. The report was published in Montevideo’s main daily El Pais following on the “readings” of the signatures of three of the hopefuls.
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Thursday, October 15th 2009 - 07:51 UTC
New warnings about an arms race in South America and Nicaragua
Several Latinamerica former political leaders and security experts expressed concern over the consequences of an arms race in South America and in Central America’s Nicaragua.
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Thursday, October 15th 2009 - 07:47 UTC
China’s super rich linked to real estate and massive urbanization
The super rich from China seem to have put the credit crunch behind them as the average wealth of China’s richest 1,000 people grew 30% in the past 12 months, surpassing the boom of 2007, according to a report released this week in Shanghai.
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Thursday, October 15th 2009 - 07:43 UTC
“Alternative Nobel” honors for climate-change awareness
Environmentalist David Suzuki has received a prestigious award known as the “alternative Nobel” for his work to raise awareness about climate change. Suzuki, 73, received the Right Livelihood Award, along with three other activists.
