Argentina

• Sunday, May 27th 2012 - 03:47 UTC

  August 3, an emblematic date for Argentina’s “dollar-clamp” policy

  

  The current strict measures to counter the purchase of US dollars and by extension capital flight, implemented by Argentina apparently have a calendar date full of political significance: August 3 when the Boden 2012 fully matures.

• Sunday, May 27th 2012 - 03:01 UTC

  Argentine youth takes to Indian culture from Sanskrit songs to mediation and spiritualism

  

  By R.Viswanathan - I had the most unusual night club experience in Argentina last weekend when I was in “Groove” one of the trendiest night clubs of Buenos Aires. The DJ was not playing Salsa, Samba or Reggaton. Instead, the club was vibrating with Sanskrit songs...

• Friday, May 25th 2012 - 22:33 UTC

  April consumer confidence rose in Argentina for the first time in five months

  

  A closely watched gauge of Argentina consumer confidence rose for the first time in five months in May, according to a report published this week by Torcuato di Tella University, UTDT.

• Friday, May 25th 2012 - 22:16 UTC

  China’s April exports to Argentina fell 34.4%, largest monthly drop since 2009

  

  China's exports to Argentina in April declined 34.4 percent from last year, the largest monthly drop since the 2009 global recession, signalling the deepening negative influence of Argentina's trade protectionism on bilateral trade, analysts and trade experts said, quoted by the official Beijing news agency.

• Friday, May 25th 2012 - 22:07 UTC

  UK passion for Argentine wines: first quarter imports rocket 15% in volume

  

  Argentine wine exports to the UK have rocketed by 25% in value and 12% in volume in the first three months of the year. This put the UK back ahead of Brazil as Argentina’s third largest market worldwide, and the US and Canada, and represents the largest gains for over four years.

• Friday, May 25th 2012 - 16:10 UTC

  EU files suit against Argentina with WTO, but it’s a long process

  

  The European Union filed a suit against Argentina's import restrictions with the World Trade Organization (WTO), European Union Trade Commissioner Karel De Gucht announced on Friday.

• Friday, May 25th 2012 - 07:01 UTC

  Three former presidents admit Mercosur has failed and has Uruguay ‘trapped’

  

  Three former Uruguayan presidents recommended the current administration that without abandoning Mercosur, it should look at major trade blocks associations but at the same time a strong self criticism is needed because maybe the problem is not in Mercosur but in Uruguay.

• Friday, May 25th 2012 - 06:56 UTC

  Argentina extends dollar purchase control to residents travelling abroad

  

  Argentina announced on Thursday the use of a new computer tool to gather information from buyers of holiday packages from travel agencies, in another attempt to control savers thirst for greenbacks after the government's crackdown on access to dollars.

• Friday, May 25th 2012 - 06:51 UTC

  Argentina revokes commuter railway concession involved in crash that killed 51m and injured 700

  

  Argentina's government on Thursday revoked the commuter railway concession for a company whose train crashed in February, killing 51 people and injuring 703.

• Friday, May 25th 2012 - 01:21 UTC

  Argentina attacks WTO and US on trade issues at OECD ministerial round

  

  In an offensive to counter recent attacks on Argentina’s restrictive trade policies, Foreign Minister Hector Timerman expressed at the World Trade Organization, WTO, his government’s concern with the current course of global negotiations which face the serious risk of abandoning the development goals agreed when the launching of the current Doha Round of negotiations back in 2001.