MercoPress. South Atlantic News Agency
Stories for April 4th 2012
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Wednesday, April 4th 2012 - 02:35 UTC
Boeing to open an aerospace research and technology centre in Sao Paulo
US air industry giant Boeing announced today that it will establish a research and technology centre in Sao Paulo that will work with Brazil’s leading researchers and scientists to develop aerospace technologies.
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Wednesday, April 4th 2012 - 02:28 UTC
A decade later S&P lifts Uruguay’s rating to investment grade
Uruguay’s credit rating was raised one level by Standard & Poor’s, which means the country has returned to investment grade for the first time in a decade.
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Wednesday, April 4th 2012 - 02:25 UTC
Brazilian Senate will only deal directly with FIFA president Blatter
A panel of the Brazilian Senate on Tuesday canceled a planned meeting with FIFA secretary general Jerome Valcke, who last month caused uproar with his outspoken criticism of the country's 2014 World Cup preparations.
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Wednesday, April 4th 2012 - 02:20 UTC
Brazil soy farmers expected to plant a record acreage after this year’s dismal crop
Brazilian farmers will likely plant at least 26.2 million hectares with soybeans in the next crop, up 1.1 million hectares from the current 2011-12 crop, forecaster Agroconsult said Tuesday.
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Wednesday, April 4th 2012 - 01:47 UTC
YPF shares plummet on growing investors’ fear of Argentine government takeover
Shares in Argentina's biggest energy company, YPF plummeted on Tuesday because of growing investor fear over a possible government plan to seize control of the oil firm.
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Wednesday, April 4th 2012 - 01:40 UTC
Argentina blasts PM Cameron ‘profound error’ of glorifying colonialism
The Argentine Foreign Ministry strongly rebuked comments made by UK Prime Minister David Cameron on Monday, the thirtieth anniversary of the start of the Malvinas War and blasted the UK’s “persistent glorification of colonialism”.
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Wednesday, April 4th 2012 - 01:37 UTC
Brazil announces 35bn dollars stimulus measures to prop industry
Brazil announced on Tuesday tax cuts and other stimulus measures worth about 65 billion Reais (35 billion dollars) to protect the country’s struggling industry from what she said were “predatory” trade practices by rich nations.
