Argentina

• Tuesday, October 7th 2014 - 00:43 UTC

  Griesa orders Argentina to reinstate BoNY as trustee for bondholders' payments

  

  US Judge Thomas Griesa has ordered Argentina to reinstate the Bank of New York Mellon (BoNY) as trustee for bondholders payments and “reverse the steps taken” with the approval of the so-called Sovereign Payment law that replaced it with the country's Nacion Fideicomisos.

• Monday, October 6th 2014 - 07:33 UTC

  Italian holdouts, following on Paul Singer, present demand against Argentina

  

  Italian bondholders filed a complaint order to United States District Judge Thomas Griesa asking to be given the same benefits as Aurelius Management and NML Management, the “holdouts” that were authorized by Griesa to be paid the full debt Argentina has with them.

• Monday, October 6th 2014 - 06:34 UTC

  BBC2 To Gear claims “they threw us out of Argentina for the political capital”

  

  BBC2’s Top Gear presenter Jeremy Clarkson has said his crew did nothing wrong and affirmed “someone could have been killed”, following incidents in which a group of people in Tierra del Fuego threw stones at their cars, thinking the license plates they used for filming were directly alluding to the Falklands/Malvinas War.

• Monday, October 6th 2014 - 06:21 UTC

  Conference on Hudson, “An Argentine writer that wrote in English”

  

  Argentine ambassador to the UK Alicia Castro and Argentina's National Library head Horacio Gonzalez took part in a conference held at the British Library last Friday in London to promote “cultural cooperation and dialogue” between the two countries.

• Saturday, October 4th 2014 - 05:39 UTC

  Mobbing by Argentine officials forces BBC Top Gear team to flee to Chile

  

  Hooliganism and mobbing by government officials seem to be the norm in Argentina following on the experience of two incidents, one involving a BBC crew forced out of the country for their alleged 'disrespectful attitude' towards the Falklands/Malvinas conflict memory, and a second calling on hecklers to impede a conference in Buenos Aires of a former minister.

• Friday, October 3rd 2014 - 23:34 UTC

  Squid, hake and shrimp make up most of Argentine fisheries exports

  

  Argentina exported 277.348 tons of seafood between January and August 2014, which represents a minimum rise of 0.01% compared to the 277.314 tons of the same period in 2013.

• Friday, October 3rd 2014 - 07:36 UTC

  Brazil private sector wants to help Argentina in the dispute with 'holdouts'

  

  According to Argentina's leading and most influential financial newspaper, Ambito Financiero, Brazil, via the private sector could come to the rescue of Argentina in its ongoing dispute with the speculative funds in the New York court presided by Judge Thomas Griesa.

• Friday, October 3rd 2014 - 07:23 UTC

  Argentina: Vanoli meets Cristina Fernandez and begins working at the central bank

  

  In his first activity since his designation as the new chief of the Argentine Central Bank, Alejandro Vanoli met on Thursday President Cristina Fernandez and Economy Minister Axel Kicillof in Olivos.

• Friday, October 3rd 2014 - 07:17 UTC

  Buenos Aires stock market plunges 7.2%, and the US dollar recedes slightly

  

  The day after Argentina's central bank governor Juan Carlos Fabrega stepped down, investors expressed their pessimism as Buenos Aires City stock market, Merval, which plunged 7.2% to 10,703.32 points on Thursday.

• Friday, October 3rd 2014 - 06:20 UTC

  The Argentine economy: “Thumbs down” writes The Economist

  

  Those baffled by the Argentine economy could do worse than listen to Puff Daddy. Ask what ails the country and the answer will echo the rapper’s ode to the 100-dollar bill, “It’s all about the Benjamins”.