MercoPress. South Atlantic News Agency
Stories for September 5th 2019
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Thursday, September 5th 2019 - 09:35 UTC
Chile's central bank slashes benchmark interest rate to 2% to prop economy
Chile’s central bank slashed the benchmark interest rate by 50 basis points to 2% on Tuesday, the lowest in 9 years, citing a sputtering economy hurt by global trade tensions.
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Thursday, September 5th 2019 - 09:34 UTC
Ex First Lady of Honduras sentenced to 58 years in jail on charges of fraud
The former first lady of Honduras Rosa Elena Bonilla, wife of ex-president Porfirio Lobo, was sentenced on Wednesday to 58 years in jail on charges of fraud and undue appropriation of funds, a spokesman for the nation's highest court said.
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Thursday, September 5th 2019 - 09:20 UTC
Lopez Obrador prepared to go after his (corrupt) predecessors and their administrations
Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador said the public should have the right to choose whether ex-presidents should face trial once a bill has passed Congress making it easier to hold referendums.
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Thursday, September 5th 2019 - 09:19 UTC
Soybean plantation in Brazil forecasted to grow at a much lower pace
The area in Brazil to be planted with soybeans in the 2019-20 season, which starts this month, will grow by the slowest pace in 13 years as a global trade war and swine fever in China cloud the outlook for farmers, according to analysts at AgRural.
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Thursday, September 5th 2019 - 09:06 UTC
The Caribbean cruise industry suffers the consequences of hurricane Dorian battering of Bahamas
For the Atlantic's major cruise operators, deadly Hurricane Dorian has meant nothing but trouble in paradise as ships have been diverted from the Bahamas. But as the widespread devastation becomes more apparent on the ravished archipelago, a bread-and-butter staple of the tourist industry, the companies are pledging to help fund major relief.
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Thursday, September 5th 2019 - 08:56 UTC
Britain's Conservative parties imploding as decades of infighting are coming to an end
Britain's ruling Conservative Party is imploding this week as a result of a no-holds-barred battle over Brexit that has seen the expulsion of 21 moderate MPs, including Winston Churchill's grandson, experts said.
