Stories for November 2014

Monday, November 10th 2014 - 19:56 UTC
Hong Kong-Shanghai stock exchanges link will allow trading across the border

Regulators have approved a long-awaited plan to connect the Hong Kong and Shanghai stock exchanges. The Shanghai-Hong Kong Stock Connect will allow investors to trade across the border for the first time and is set to begin on 17 November.
Monday, November 10th 2014 - 19:28 UTC
FAO's food price index remains stable in October: 'very good for importing countries'

FAO's monthly food price index was stable in October, as sugar and vegetable oil prices rose to offset declines in dairy and meat prices. The Food Price Index dipped to 192.3, technically, its seventh consecutive monthly decline, but a marginal 0.2% drop from the revised September figure.
Monday, November 10th 2014 - 19:13 UTC
Chilean cruise industry wants to 'catch' 'repeaters' with new options

The official 2014/2015 cruise season was recently launched in Chile with the announcement that in the November/April period an estimated 200.000 passengers with 168 vessels calling, will be visiting the country. However in an interesting twist for the industry, Chileans admit that together with the cruise companies they are intent in concentrating efforts in what is called 'repeaters'.
Monday, November 10th 2014 - 09:27 UTC
Tourism 'high season' in Chile has extended to include first half of March

In Chile the summer 'high season' is traditionally January and February when most families chose to take their annual holidays and March the month when things 'return to normal', mostly because children return to school.
Monday, November 10th 2014 - 09:13 UTC
Falklands/Malvinas issue to be debated at the Parlasur Parliament

The Falklands/Malvinas dispute and 'colonialism' will be discussed on Monday during an extraordinary session of the Mercosur Parliament, Parlasur, in Montevideo with the attendance of Argentine and Uruguayan foreign ministers Hector Timerman and Luis Almagro.
Monday, November 10th 2014 - 09:08 UTC
“Nothing and no one can stand in the way of freedom” says Berlin mayor

More than a million Germans and people from around the world celebrated on Sunday the 25th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, the event that more than any other marked the end of the Cold War.
Monday, November 10th 2014 - 08:54 UTC
Cable & Wireless acquires major Caribbean telecoms company

Columbus International Inc., the fiber-based telecoms company which operates in the Caribbean as Flow, has been acquired by LIME parent company, Cable & Wireless Communications Plc. (CWC), in a 3bn dollars buyout deal announced last Friday.
Monday, November 10th 2014 - 08:49 UTC
Scotiabank plans to shut 120 branches in Mexico and the Caribbean

Canada’s Scotiabank has announced plans to shut or shrink 120 branches, largely in Mexico and the Caribbean, in a bid to save CAN$120 million (One Canadian dollar =US$0.87 cents) annually. The bank said it would close down 35 of its 200 branches in the Caribbean and would sever 1, 500 full-time employees, including 500 from its international operations.
Monday, November 10th 2014 - 08:37 UTC
Argentine president begins ten-day resting period in Olivos

Argentine President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner was discharged on Sunday from Otamendi hospital where she had been admitted a week ago to be treated for sigmoiditis, an infection of the colon.
Monday, November 10th 2014 - 07:43 UTC
Over two million Catalans vote in the “consultation of citizens” challenging Madrid

Millions of Catalans voted on Sunday in a symbolic referendum on independence from Spain that supporters hope will propel the issue further despite opposition from Madrid.