MercoPress. South Atlantic News Agency
Stories for June 21st 2014
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Saturday, June 21st 2014 - 09:45 UTC
Strong warning to Argentina from Griesa regarding payment of bondholders
US Federal Judge Thomas Griesa, ratified on Friday through an official letter that Argentina’s proposal to carry out a debt exchange and pay its bondholders in Buenos Aires represents a “violation of the rulings and procedures.”
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Saturday, June 21st 2014 - 09:31 UTC
Cristina Fernandez calls for negotiations: “we want to pay 100% of creditors”
In a conciliatory speech compared to previous statements, President Cristina Fernandez said on Friday her government would negotiate with all of Argentina's creditors in a bid to avoid a new debt default that would further weaken the country's ailing economy.
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Saturday, June 21st 2014 - 09:18 UTC
German companies warn of consequences from Uruguay/Argentina conflict
The Uruguay-Germany commerce and industry chamber (AHK), expressed its deepest concern over the current tension in relations between Uruguay and Argentina, and warned about the impact on the business climate for the two countries.
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Saturday, June 21st 2014 - 09:04 UTC
Brazil disappointed with Argentina's 'lack of ambition' in reaching trade accord with EU
Argentina and Brazil have again clashed not over football but over trade and Mercosur according to the Sao Paulo media. Brazil believes there is “a lack of ambition from Argentina” to finish polishing the proposal to be exchanged with the European Union for a much delayed cooperation and trade agreement.
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Saturday, June 21st 2014 - 08:54 UTC
Pacific Alliance bourses, MILA, planned to be integrated by end of year
Mexico's stock exchange plans to be connected to bourses in Chile, Colombia and Peru by year-end through the Latin American Integrated Market, or MILA, nearly doubling the size of the bloc, it was announced in Mexico City.
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Saturday, June 21st 2014 - 08:35 UTC
Bachelet proposes meeting of Mercosur and Pacific Alliance leaders
Chilean President Michelle Bachelet on Friday proposed a September gathering between officials and business leaders from Mercosur and the Pacific Alliance in hopes of creating a tie-up between the two Latin American trade groups.
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Saturday, June 21st 2014 - 08:19 UTC
Cristina Fernandez took time to pick on the Falklands at her 'dialogue' speech
Cristina Fernandez on her Friday Flag Day speech in which she lowered usual rhetoric and asked US Judge Thomas Griesa for negotiations with the holdout hedge funds, picked on the Falkland Islands sovereignty dispute to channel her fury and forecasted there “is no colonialism that can last so many centuries, eventually they fall”.
