Stories for 2011

Tuesday, August 9th 2011 - 07:44 UTC
Latam markets losses greater than in Europe and the US

The main stock markets in Latin America also suffered the impact of panic selling in major markets.
Tuesday, August 9th 2011 - 07:37 UTC
Gold soars to 1.700 dollars as world markets are on free-fall fearing recession

Asian equity markets were sharply down early Tuesday as investors fearing a possible global economic slowdown continued to flee stocks as had happened earlier in Europe, United States and Latin America.
Tuesday, August 9th 2011 - 07:26 UTC
Canada-Brazil CEO forum to consider trade agreement with Mercosur

Visiting Canadian Primer Minister Stephen Harper and Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff signed on Monday several agreements on air travel, pension benefits, international aid and other areas at the Planalto Executive palace in Brasilia.
Tuesday, August 9th 2011 - 07:21 UTC
Chile’s Piñera approval rating plummets to the lowest of any president since 1990

Early last week The Santiago Times reported that approval of President Sebastián Piñera had plummeted, according to a government evaluation survey by one of Chile’s leading polling firms, Adimark.
Monday, August 8th 2011 - 20:45 UTC
Chile’s protests for education reform trigger acrimonious political debate

Following one of the most violent marches yet in the citizens’ movement for education reform, Chilean former and current government officials are sounding off against President Sebastián Piñera’s administration and its handling of the ongoing demands for national education reform.
Monday, August 8th 2011 - 20:39 UTC
Youth killed by polar bear is grandson of former Gibraltar governor

Horatio Chapple, 17, an aspiring UK medical student, who was killed last week when a polar bear rampaged into the tent in which he and his friends were sleeping on a glacier in Svalbard, Norway, is Gibraltar’s former Governor Sir John Chapple’s grandson.
Monday, August 8th 2011 - 20:32 UTC
Moody’s repeats downgrade warning by 2013 if US does not cut budget deficit

Ratings agency Moody's repeated a warning Monday it could downgrade the United States before 2013 if the fiscal or economic outlook weakens significantly, but said it saw the potential for a new debt agreement in Washington to cut the budget deficit before then.
Monday, August 8th 2011 - 20:14 UTC
Wildlife remains the biggest attraction for visitors to the Falkland Islands

Wildlife remains the biggest draw for visitors considering a trip to the Falkland Islands according to new results revealed by a poll conducted by the Falkland Islands Tourist Board.
Monday, August 8th 2011 - 20:10 UTC
Colombia forces change strategy and will attack terrorists with small scale units

Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos vowed to develop better strategies in the war on the Marxist oriented drugs funded guerrillas who still manage regular small attacks despite being at their weakest in decades.
Monday, August 8th 2011 - 20:06 UTC
Brazil, ‘world’s fifth largest economy’ is ready to face the crisis, says Rousseff

Brazilian President Dilma Rouseff on Monday the country is ready to face the world’s economic crisis and reiterated Brazil’s prognosis as the world’s fifth economy.