Argentina

• Thursday, September 8th 2011 - 05:49 UTC

  Mercosur/Asia soy-market forum project brings together leading experts

  

  Experts from South America, US, Europe, India and China will be discussing next week in Rosario, Argentina the possibility of an Asia-Mercosur grains and oilseeds market in which soybeans will be playing the leading trade role.

• Thursday, September 8th 2011 - 05:43 UTC

  Argentine prepared to let the Peso and central bank reserves slide

  

  Argentina's international reserves have been declining for weeks as the central bank tries to stem the peso's slide against the US dollar, but policymakers have signaled that they intend to keep dipping into reserves to prevent an even swifter depreciation.

• Thursday, September 8th 2011 - 02:51 UTC

  Argentine president and business leaders exchange compliments

  

  Argentina “is neither untouchable nor invulnerable” to the complicated global financial situation said on Wednesday President Cristina Fernandez who highlighted that had the crisis hit in a different time it would have obliterated Argentina.

• Thursday, September 8th 2011 - 00:45 UTC

  Argentina alleges Falklands is under ‘military occupation’ with more soldiers than civilians

  

  Falklands-Malvinas is “under military occupation” and the military base “has more soldiers than the British civilian population occupying the Islands”, said Argentine ambassador before the United Nations Jorge Argüello during a conference at China’s International Studies Foundation.

• Thursday, September 8th 2011 - 00:16 UTC

  CFK announces increase in child allowance 45 days before presidential election

  

  With less than two months for the October 23 general election, Argentine President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner announced on Wednesday changes in the Universal Child Allowance (AUH), including the new rates for children under 18, disabled children and pregnant women.

• Wednesday, September 7th 2011 - 11:13 UTC

  Argentina en route to importing three times more natural gas than in 2010

  

  Argentina could import 66 liquefied natural gas cargoes in 2011 triple the amount it purchased last year, according to data from state energy company Enarsa.

• Wednesday, September 7th 2011 - 10:47 UTC

  Argentina/Brazil confirm South Atlantic as a peace and cooperation zone free of nuclear weapons

  

  Argentina and Brazil defence ministers confirmed the two countries “strategic alliance” and subscribed a bilateral cooperation declaration emphasizing on the South Atlantic as “a Peace Zone, free of nuclear weapons”.

• Tuesday, September 6th 2011 - 06:31 UTC

  A China/Mercosur trade agreement would be “something extraordinary”

  

  A free trade agreement, (FTA), between China and Mercosur could be “something extraordinary”, said Argentine Foreign Affairs minister Hector Timerman who next Thursday begins a political and business mission in Beijing.

• Tuesday, September 6th 2011 - 06:17 UTC

  Another record month for car production and sales in Argentina

  

  Argentine car makers set a new record for production in August, cranking out 84,655 vehicles amid brisk economic growth, an ongoing consumption boom and soaring exports to Brazil.

• Tuesday, September 6th 2011 - 03:05 UTC

  Argentina’s future closely knit as supplier to China’s growing middle class

  

  The growing Chinese middle class which could reach 500 million people by 2025 will be the great locomotive for commodities demand in the coming decades benefiting countries such as Argentina according to an Asian affairs and trade expert.