Argentina

Monday, January 1st 2007 - 20:00 UTC
Argentina announces 2.3-billion-dollar fuel refinery project

In an effort to offset expected shortages in diesel fuel supplies, the Argentine government has announced a project to build a refinery that will require an about 2.3-billion-dollar investment which will be mainly made by some 30 private oil companies, with the exception of Royal/Dutch Shell, which is engaged in a dispute with the administration.
Monday, January 1st 2007 - 20:00 UTC
Tobacco advertising banned in Buenos Aires City

Public advertising of tobacco in Buenos Aires City has been banned as from the first day of 2007, under municipal law 1799 passed in late 2005, amid a drive to curb smoking-related illnesses in Argentina that according the national government kill 40,000 people a year.
Saturday, December 30th 2006 - 20:00 UTC
Court ruling fairly reasonable, law experts say

While the government praised it as reinstating certainty, some savers saw it as the end of a nightmare and banks continue mum and mulling its possible implications, law experts said that the Supreme Court ruling that ordered banks on Wednesday to reimburse savers in pesos dollar deposits frozen during Argentina's 2001 economic debacle, was fairly reasonable.
Friday, December 29th 2006 - 20:00 UTC
South Africa's Standard Bank Argentine deal an attention call for competitors

The planned purchase by Standard Bank ÃÂ¢€“ South Africa's largest private bank by assets ÃÂ¢€” of most of US' Bank of America Corp.'s BankBoston Argentina assets, marks the first large investment by a foreign player in the sector since Argentina's 2001-2002 economic meltdown, and an attention call for competitors, banking sources told MercoPress.
Friday, December 29th 2006 - 20:00 UTC
Argentine clue witness in human rights trial reappears

Minutes after Argentine President Nestor Kirchner ended a national address saying he will not be blackmailed by paramilitary groups that allegedly have kidnapped clue witnesses in human rights trials, one of them appeared safe and sound.
Thursday, December 28th 2006 - 20:00 UTC
Argentine banks must return 2001/02 frozen deposits

Five years later and in a long-awaited ruling, the Argentine Supreme Court ordered local banks to reimburse in full their customers savings that were frozen during the economic crisis of 2001/02, when Argentina also defaulted on its foreign debt.
Wednesday, December 27th 2006 - 20:00 UTC
Argentine fisheries exports 510.000 tons in ten months

Argentine fisheries exports (sea and fluvial; fresh and processed) during the first ten months of 2006 totaled 510.223 tons representing over a billion US dollars, according to the latest report from Senasa, Agro-food Health and Quality Service
Tuesday, December 26th 2006 - 20:00 UTC
Argentina's international reserves set to reach 43 billion

Argentina's Central Bank international reserves are set to reach 43 billion US dollars by the end of next year according to estimates from the private BBVA Banco Francés, released Tuesday in Buenos Aires.
Tuesday, December 26th 2006 - 20:00 UTC
Mrs. Kirchner with increasing chances for October 2007

Argentine president Nestor Kirchner will leave office next December 2007 to concentrate on building his political force while the First Lady and Senator, Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner is the leading candidate to succeed her, anticipated this week Congress member Carlos Kunkel from the ruling coalition
Monday, December 25th 2006 - 20:00 UTC
Italy's Gruppo Beltrame mulls steel plant in Argentina

BUENOS AIRES ÃÂ¢€” Italy's Gruppo Beltrame, Europe's fifth largest steelmaker, is considering plans to build its first plant outside Europe in Argentina at a cost of about 53 million dollars to manufacture plate for the shipbuilding sector, Río Santiago shipyard (ARS) said in a statement.