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Montevideo, June 19th 2026 - 08:46 UTC

Argentina

  • Monday, January 16th 2017 - 09:50 UTC

    Azul to operate daily Belo Horizonte-Ezeiza nonstop flight

    Azul is a Brazilian low-cost carrier which will serve the Belo Horizone-Ezeiza route with Embraer 195 aircraft

    Over 1,200 reservations were registered during first week after services were made available, Fabián Lombardo, the company's representative in Argentina, Paraguay and Uruguay, announced. The company will fly daily from Belo Horizonte to Buenos Aires (Ezeiza) starting March 6.

  • Saturday, January 14th 2017 - 08:37 UTC

    Malcorra reiterates: Argentina willing to cooperative research in the South Atlantic

    ”We feel there is an opportunity for a cooperative scientific research (in the South Atlantic) which could be a strong step forward in the correct direction”

    Foreign minister Susana Malcorra said fisheries licensing in the South Atlantic is of great concern for Argentina because of the “overall ongoing depredation”, and recalled that there is an item referred to the issue in the September UK-Argentine joint statement, which has yet to be addressed and that most probably it will follow on the identification of unknown soldiers buried in the Falklands and the additional flights issues.

  • Friday, January 13th 2017 - 11:04 UTC

    Argentina announces ambitious financial program; road show begins Monday in London

    Sovereign bond issuance will start on Jan. 19, with a sale of US$3 billion to US$5 billion in U.S. dollar-denominated paper, announced minister Caputo.

    Argentina struck an 18-month financing deal worth US$6 billion with six banks on Thursday, Finance Minister Luis Caputo told reporters, saying the government planned to tap international capital markets for US$10 billion in 2017. Sovereign bond issuance will start on Jan. 19, with a sale of US$3 billion to US$5 billion in U.S. dollar-denominated paper.

  • Friday, January 13th 2017 - 09:03 UTC

    Falklands: 46 minefields to be cleared in two years pledges Foreign Office

    Special crews working in the clearance of minefields in the Falklands. Since 2009 some 30 areas have been cleared

    Falkland Islanders can expect a total of 46 minefields cleared over the next two years in the Mount Longdon and Stanley area confirmed a Foreign and Commonwealth Office delegation in the Falklands this week. Mines are the long lasting and unwanted legacy of the 1982 war.

  • Thursday, January 12th 2017 - 06:26 UTC

    Argentina prepared to share South Atlantic fisheries scientific data, says Malcorra

    Malcorra did not discard “joint fisheries scientific surveying”, particularly referred to migrant species and which are “submitted to a standing depredation”.

    discuss hydrocarbon and fisheries issues in the South Atlantic with the UK, following on the road map agreed last September in the joint statement. These issues were described as “fundamental” and will be discussed in the Argentine congress, but others such as trade and navigation, do not need to be consulted with the legislative branch.

  • Wednesday, January 11th 2017 - 08:29 UTC

    Macri announces program to boost development of Vaca Muerta shale formation

    YPF, BP-controlled Pan American Energy, France's Total, Shell, Chevron and US Dow, pledged to invest a combined US$5bn this year in Vaca Muerta

    Argentina's government has agreed to extend a natural gas wellhead price subsidy until 2020 and reduce labor costs in a bid to jumpstart investment in the Vaca Muerta shale formation. The agreement, reached between the national government, the provincial government of Neuquen, industry and labor unions, comes at a time of lackluster upstream activity, reflecting an uncertain price environment and cost concerns.

  • Tuesday, January 10th 2017 - 17:34 UTC

    Morgan Stanley anticipates a 133%/258% stock market return in Argentina in five years

    While a 258% return on Argentine stock investments is the best-case scenario, the investment bank Morgan Stanley said a 133% return is the most likely.

    Investors betting on Argentina's stock market could make a return of 258% in five years, according to analysts at Morgan Stanley. Argentina is returning to economic and political normality after years in the capital markets wilderness following its 2002 debt default and financial collapse, Morgan Stanley said in a note to clients.

  • Saturday, January 7th 2017 - 07:35 UTC

    Half the Argentine labor force make a monthly average of US$ 565, says Indec

    According to the survey 10% of the poorest Argentine households concentrate 1.9% of the overall national income while the 10% at the other end, 29.1%.

    Half the Argentine labor force employed was making at the end of the third quarter a monthly average of 9.000 Pesos, equivalent approximately to US$ 565, while the poorest 10% averaged 2.500 Pesos (approx US$ 165) and the richest 10%, anywhere from 20.000 to 250.000 Pesos (US$ 1.250 to 15.000) a month, according the revamped Argentine stats and census office, Indec.

  • Friday, January 6th 2017 - 11:34 UTC

    Falklands' identification of Argentine soldiers will be done in strict confidentiality

    The overall cost of the PPH is estimated between 1.1 and 1.4 Swiss Francs (almost equal in US dollars), which is expected to cover all expenses

    The Argentine media has published details of the Red Cross humanitarian mission in the Falkland Islands to identify the remains of the 123 unknown Argentine soldiers buried at the Darwin cemetery, and a single word stands out, confidentiality, from the beginning to end, including a final assessment to decide what will effectively be released to the media.

  • Friday, January 6th 2017 - 10:45 UTC

    “Celebrity Eclipse” will be returning to Argentina for the 2018/19 cruise season

    The 317 meters long vessel will be the largest cruise to make a full season calling in Buenos Aires, Puerto Madryn and Ushuaia, with a passenger turnover of 42.000

    Celebrity Cruises will be returning to Argentina in the 2018/19 season, and in a big way, with the Solstice class vessels, the “Celebrity Eclipse”, according to their local agents in Buenos Aires, Navijet S.A. “Celebrity Eclipse” is among the top twenty largest cruise vessels was launched in 2010, has a maximum capacity of 4.400 including passengers and crew members.