Stories for 2016

Friday, February 12th 2016 - 06:27 UTC
Petrobras faces legal challenges in the billions from international investors

Brazil’s troubled state oil firm Petrobras faces possible new legal challenges from a coalition of groups representing international investors based in Europe in the US. The financially hobbled and corruption-racked company is being sued over alleged fraud-related losses the investors suffered on its shares and bonds traded outside the Americas.
Friday, February 12th 2016 - 06:21 UTC
Brazil's economic outlook worsens, according to latest central bank survey

Analysts expect Brazil's economy to contract by 3.21% this year, with the outlook worsening from last week, the Central Bank said this week. Seven days ago analysts said they expected Brazil's economy to contract by 3.01% in 2016.
Friday, February 12th 2016 - 06:15 UTC
Falklands' oil industry development continues despite slump in crude prices

Rockhopper Exploration flagship project, offshore the Falkland Islands the Sea Lion oil field development, continues to advance despite the recent slump in crude prices.
Friday, February 12th 2016 - 01:51 UTC
Mod funds to design the successor of Royal Navy's Vanguard class submarines

The United Kingdom Ministry of Defense (MoD) has awarded BAE Systems £201 million to further the design of a successor to the Royal Navy's Vanguard class submarines.
Thursday, February 11th 2016 - 05:57 UTC
Fed warns about uncertainty in China and tightening financial markets

Tightening financial conditions driven by falling stock prices, uncertainty over China and a global reassessment of credit risk could throw the US economy off track from an otherwise solid course, Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen cautioned in a prepared testimony to Congress on Wednesday.
Thursday, February 11th 2016 - 05:45 UTC
ICAO agrees on first binding limits on emissions from the aviation industry

UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon welcomed the announcement by the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) proposing the first binding limits on emissions from the aviation industry.
Thursday, February 11th 2016 - 05:40 UTC
Brazil reopens crucial waterway for transporting soy; water was used to generate power

Brazil's Tiete-Parana waterway, a key transport corridor for soybeans, corn, cellulose, fertilizer and other agricultural products, has reopened after a 20-month closure due to drought and the use of water for electricity, the Estado de S. Paulo newspaper reported this week.
Thursday, February 11th 2016 - 05:22 UTC
Magallanes enjoying an unexpected excellent cruise season

Chile anticipates a 30% increase in cruise activity in the extreme south of the country, mainly Punta Arenas and Puerto Natales, announced Lorena Araya, head of Magallanes region National Tourism Service, Sernatur.
Wednesday, February 10th 2016 - 23:11 UTC
Montevideo-Stanley, an integrating and necessary air link

By Jaime Trobo (*) - For some time now we have been arguing that Uruguay must strengthen its bonds and contacts with a neighboring territory, in the southern cone, part of our American continent, where families who arrived in our region during the first half of the XIX century live, and with whom those contacts, once very intense, have waned, particularly in the last decades.
Wednesday, February 10th 2016 - 07:24 UTC
Argentina still has uphill battle with holdouts: a stay of pari-passu is next round

While investors cheered progress on last week's arduous negotiations in New York between Argentine government officials and litigant investors, the administration of president Mauricio Macri still faces an uphill battle as it works to bring other holdouts on board.