Argentina

• Saturday, March 5th 2011 - 07:12 UTC

  Argentina soy export terminals resume full activities

  

  Argentine dock workers reached a wage deal on Friday and called off a three-day-old protest that paralyzed two major soy export terminals and stopped 20 grains ships from loading, a union leader said.

• Saturday, March 5th 2011 - 06:40 UTC

  Argentina’s construction activity in January increased 11.7% over a year ago

  

  Argentina's construction activity grew at a slower pace in January, with many builders away on summer vacation, according to the national statistics agency, Indec.

• Saturday, March 5th 2011 - 03:29 UTC

  USDA downplays upbeat forecasts of Argentine soybean harvest

  

  US Department of Agriculture attaches in Buenos Aires have warned against upbeat forecasts for Argentina's soybean harvest, saying many farms missed out on crop-reviving rainfall.

• Saturday, March 5th 2011 - 03:24 UTC

  Argentina’s car production up 5% and exports 8% during February

  

  Argentina's automotive industry made fewer cars in February than it did the previous month but output was up from the same month a year ago.

• Friday, March 4th 2011 - 23:04 UTC

  Argentina waging a ‘vicious war’ against the Falkland Islands

  

  Falkland Islands Legislative Assembly member Bill Luxton aimed a fierce broadside against Argentine government propaganda and pressure on the Falklands. He was supported by several colleagues from the Legislative Assembly.

• Friday, March 4th 2011 - 22:29 UTC

  Argentina pays international debts with Central bank ‘free and available’ reserves

  

  Argentina's federal government on Friday said it will pay 2.17 billion US dollars owed to international financial organizations this year with central bank reserves and funds held in the treasury.

• Friday, March 4th 2011 - 22:23 UTC

  Argentina fish landings decline by 30% in first two months of 2011

  

  Argentine fish landings during the first two months of 2011 have dropped 30.4% compared to a year ago totalling 50.749 tons against 72.819 in 2010. Of the total volume, 40.632 tons were fisheries, 5.995 tons, molluscs and 4.121 tons crustaceans, according to the country’s Under Secretariat for Fisheries and Aquaculture.

• Friday, March 4th 2011 - 06:19 UTC

  Strauss-Khan describes IMF/Argentina relation as ‘romance” with love-hate periods

  

  The IMF relation with Argentina is like romance with its ups and downs, said IMF Managing Director Dominique Strauss-Khan who added he trusted that the IMF technical mission that will be visiting Argentina to help elaborate a new retail prices index would achieve “significant advances”.

• Friday, March 4th 2011 - 01:44 UTC

  Argentine striking dock workers block two major grain export terminals

  

  Argentine dock workers blocked two major grain export terminals for a second day on Thursday to press pay demands, but most soy-crushing plants and ports operated normally, the labour cooperative said.

• Friday, March 4th 2011 - 01:20 UTC

  Argentine Treasury appeals to government banks to pay debts

  

  Argentina's Treasury will borrow 8.40 billion pesos (2.02 billion US dollars) from state-run Banco Nacion this year to refinance some of its debt with the bank, a top official told state news agency Telam on Wednesday.