Stories for 2012

Thursday, August 30th 2012 - 04:36 UTC
China and Germany, world’s exporting giants meet in Beijing to discuss Euro-crisis

German leader Angela Merkel is due to hold top-level talks Thursday on her second visit to China this year, with Europe's debt crisis taking centre stage as it begins to drag on the two global powers.
Thursday, August 30th 2012 - 04:32 UTC
Brazil cuts benchmark rate for ninth time running to an all time low of 7.5%

Brazil’s central bank cut the benchmark interest rate for the ninth straight time on Wednesday to an all-time low of 7.5%, as policymakers keep up efforts to bolster a slow-moving economy which is the world's sixth-largest.
Thursday, August 30th 2012 - 04:25 UTC
Venezuelan refinery ‘cooling down’; independent report points to serious lack of maintenance

Venezuela is carrying out an “exhaustive” inspection of its biggest refinery before attempting to restart processing after extinguishing a four-day fire yesterday caused by an explosion that killed 48 people and left hundreds homeless.
Thursday, August 30th 2012 - 04:20 UTC
Brazilian government launches a new round of stimuli to prop consumption

Brazil's government unveiled a host of new measures on Wednesday aimed at increasing investment and consumption as it expanded efforts to boost a sluggish recovery in the world's sixth-largest economy.
Thursday, August 30th 2012 - 04:05 UTC
Brazilians zest for beauty has turned the industry into the world’s third strongest

Since an estimated 40 million people have joined the middle class in the past decade in Brazil, now the world’s sixth-largest economy, the beauty industry is booming and has become the third in importance globally.
Thursday, August 30th 2012 - 03:57 UTC
Canadian company exports first gold doré bar from Paraguayan mine

Latin American Minerals Inc., Lampa, announced on Wednesday the delivery of the first gold doré bar produced at its Paso Yobai Gold Project pilot plant in Paraguay, to the Johnson Matthey Ltd. gold refinery in Brampton, Ontario.
Thursday, August 30th 2012 - 03:50 UTC
Venezuela investigating alleged massacre of indigenous people in the Amazon

Venezuela announced it is investigating an alleged massacre of indigenous people in the Amazon rainforest, after a tribal group told the government that a village of 80 natives was attacked in July from a helicopter.
Thursday, August 30th 2012 - 03:33 UTC
Protecting the whales from aggressive scavenger seagulls in Puerto Madryn

Saving the whales is something Argentines take so seriously that authorities are planning to shoot seagulls that have developed a habit of attacking the huge marine mammals. But environmentalists say the plan is misguided because humans are the real problem, creating so much garbage that the seagull population has exploded, endangering the whales.
Thursday, August 30th 2012 - 03:18 UTC
FIFA begins round of latest inspection of Brazil 2014 Cup preparations

FIFA secretary general Jerome Valke this week began his latest inspection of Brazil 2014 World Cup preparations amid ongoing concerns over delays in stadiums and infrastructure projects.
Wednesday, August 29th 2012 - 21:58 UTC
US chicken business hit by grains’ costs will need to raise consumer prices

Brazil's JBS SA, the world's biggest meatpacker, sees rising costs for feed grains hitting its US chicken business mainly in the fourth quarter and will need to raise prices accordingly.