Argentina

• Monday, August 22nd 2011 - 07:49 UTC

  Argentina and Chile jointly promoting tourism to attract more Aussies

  

  Argentina and Chile are jointly promoting their countries in a round of events in Australia with the purpose of drawing more Aussie tourists. The promotion coincides with the recent announcement of Australia’s flag carrier Qantas direct flights to Santiago de Chile.

• Monday, August 22nd 2011 - 07:28 UTC

  Argentina expected to approve the use of Bayer GM soy-seeds

  

  Mercosur full member Argentina this week is expected to approve the use of genetically-modified soy seeds made by German company Bayer as part of its push to increase farm production, a top Argentine official said on the weekend.

• Monday, August 22nd 2011 - 07:08 UTC

  Main suspect in murder of French tourists admits being at the scene of the crime

  

  One the men arrested for the July murder of two French tourists in Argentina's Salta province has confessed he was at the scene of the crime, his lawyer said Saturday.

• Monday, August 22nd 2011 - 07:01 UTC

  Argentina needs ‘no contingency or emergency plan’ to face the crises

  

  Economy Minister Amado Boudou rejected the possibility that Argentina launches a brusque devaluation of its currency to make exports more competitive and insisted Argentina needs no emergency or contingency plan to face the challenge of the current crisis in the developed economies.

• Saturday, August 20th 2011 - 06:48 UTC

  Argentina’s organized labour has also been rattled by CFK’s Sunday landslide

  

  Last Sunday’s landslide victory of Argentine president Cristina Fernandez not only showed her domain of the political stage but also weakened some of her ‘inevitable’ allies that challenge her authority: such is the case of the powerful CGT organized labour leader Hugo Moyano.

• Saturday, August 20th 2011 - 06:45 UTC

  Argentine industry says ‘inflation’ is main issue to address by next government

  

  Argentina’s powerful Industrial Union (UIA) warned that if President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner is re-elected next October one of the top issues of her agenda will be taking action in order to control “a concerning inflation”.

• Saturday, August 20th 2011 - 06:34 UTC

  Argentina’s industrial output in July could be feeling the Brazilian pinch

  

  In spite of the good overall performance of the Argentine economy with annual growth estimated at 8.2%, industrial output had a lower showing and climbed 7.6% in July over the same month last year, according to the Industrial Monthly Estimator, EMI.

• Saturday, August 20th 2011 - 06:30 UTC

  Consumers’ inflation expectation in Argentina remains steady at 25%, says UTDT

  

  Argentina's 12-month inflation expectations were unchanged for a sixth straight month in August, according to a closely watched survey published by the Torcuato Di Tella University.

• Saturday, August 20th 2011 - 06:28 UTC

  Argentine economy steams ahead at an annual rate of 8.2% in June

  

  Argentina's economy grew by a wide margin in June on the back of a consumer spending spree and solid demand for the country's grains and manufactured goods overseas, according to the national statistics office, Indec.

• Saturday, August 20th 2011 - 06:21 UTC

  Corn boom forecasted in Argentina as the grain most resilient to quotas’ system

  

  Argentina is undergoing a “corn planting boom” because of its more diversified market opportunities which help to ease the full impact of the export quotas system imposed by the government of Cristina Fernandez.