MercoPress. South Atlantic News Agency
Stories for February 17th 2011
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Thursday, February 17th 2011 - 02:45 UTC
Seized cargo incident: US government “has no reason to apologize” to Argentina
US Assistant Secretary of State for Public Affairs Philip Crowley assured that the US government “has no reason to apologize” to Argentina in the case of the “sensitive materials” that were seized in a US Air Force plane by the local government last week, amid accusations of “attempting to smuggle surveillance and communications equipment.”
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Thursday, February 17th 2011 - 02:38 UTC
The Fed confident about economic recovery but depressed with job market
US Federal Reserve officials are increasingly confident of the economic recovery but remain unsatisfied with the healing of the job market, minutes of their January meeting released showed.
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Thursday, February 17th 2011 - 02:35 UTC
Argentina’s January industrial production expanded 10.3% over a year ago
Argentina's industrial production in January continued to expand at a quick pace, led by strong output of machinery and equipment, food, non-metallic minerals and chemicals, a local think tank reported Wednesday.
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Thursday, February 17th 2011 - 01:58 UTC
Brazil injects 27 billion USD to subsidized-loans development bank
Brazilian state-run development bank BNDES will receive at least 45 billion Real or 27 billion US dollars from the government to extend its program of low-cost loans for supporting company investments in capital goods, local media reported this week.
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Thursday, February 17th 2011 - 01:18 UTC
Argentina’s boost-industry import restrictions estimated in one billion US dollars
Imports restrictions imposed this week by the Argentine government with the purpose of “preserving the re-industrialization process” cover approximately 200 products totalling annual imports of a billion US dollars, according to preliminary reports.
