Stories for November 2013

Thursday, November 28th 2013 - 21:03 UTC
UK will insist Gibraltar be included in all EU aviation legislation

The British Government will refuse to accept a return to the pre-2006 Cordoba Agreement practice of excluding the Gibraltar airport from EU aviation measures, Minister for Europe David Lidington told Parliament and pledged the inclusion of Gibraltar in all EU aviation legislation.
Thursday, November 28th 2013 - 20:58 UTC
EC makes public list of countries with yellow cards for involvement in illegal fishing

European Commission (EC) is urging European countries to impose trade sanction on Belize over illegal fishing, while warning Curacao that it may be next. The EC also urged European Union governments to hit Cambodia and Guinea with the sanctions, cautioning South Korea and Ghana that they, too, may be next in line.
Thursday, November 28th 2013 - 20:51 UTC
Poor ratings for Chile in health care and pensions' system, according to OECD

Two biannual reports revealed Chile as one of the countries with the worst pension statistics and the highest citizen out-of-pocket expenditure on health among Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) nations.
Thursday, November 28th 2013 - 11:45 UTC
Brazil determined to fight inflation raised its benchmark interest rate to 10%

As was anticipated Brazil raised its benchmark interest rate to 10% from 9.5% on Wednesday lifting borrowing costs back to double-digit territory to battle high inflation in Latin America's largest economy.
Thursday, November 28th 2013 - 11:40 UTC
Brazil auctions concession of highway that transports 45 million tons of grains annually

Brazilian construction giant Odebrecht on Wednesday was awarded a 30-year concession to operate and maintain a stretch of the BR-163 federal highway, a major road in the western state of Mato Grosso, also known as 'soy road' because of the millions of tons of grains and oilseeds that are transported annually.
Thursday, November 28th 2013 - 11:28 UTC
North west England trade mission scheduled to visit Chile, Argentina and Brazil

Attracted by Chile’s positive economic climate a trade mission for North West England will be arriving in Santiago on 2nd-3rd December. The delegation from one of the most dynamic areas of the UK economy has representatives from Covering Cheshire, Lancashire, Cumbria and the cities of Manchester and Liverpool.
Thursday, November 28th 2013 - 11:22 UTC
Washington pledged support for Japan in dispute with China over islands

The United States pledged support for ally Japan in a growing dispute with China over islands in the East China Sea and senior US administration officials accused Beijing of behavior that had unsettled its neighbors.
Thursday, November 28th 2013 - 11:02 UTC
Repsol board backs compensation deal offered by Argentina for seized YPF

Spanish oil group Repsol's board Wednesday backed a draft multi-billion-dollar compensation deal over Argentina's 2012 seizure of the company's YPF subsidiary. The deal seeks to repair the financial hit taken by Repsol when Argentina's President Cristina Fernandez in April 2012 ordered the seizure of Repsol's 51-percent stake in YPF.
Thursday, November 28th 2013 - 10:56 UTC
Brazil Supreme Court postpones major ruling against banks until February

Brazil's Supreme Court postponed until February a ruling on lawsuits by depositors that could cost the nation’s banks 65 billion dollars. Depositors claims relate to adjustments to accounts to compensate for hyperinflation and other drastic measures in early nineties mostly under president Fernando Collor de Melo.
Thursday, November 28th 2013 - 10:50 UTC
Sigh of relief in Europe: German Chancellor Merkel works out a 'grand coalition'

Chancellor Angela Merkel's conservatives and the center-left Social Democrats (SPD) clinched a coalition deal early Wednesday that puts Germany on track to have a new government in place by Christmas.