Argentina

• Saturday, December 15th 2012 - 20:59 UTC

  Petrobras selling its assets in Argentina; YPF one of the interested companies

  

  Brazil's state-run oil company Petrobras is putting its Argentine assets up for sale and will start accepting bids from interested buyers as early as this week, Buenos Aires newspaper La Nacion reported Friday.

• Saturday, December 15th 2012 - 16:57 UTC

  Law of the Sea court orders ‘immediate’ release of ARA Libertad

  

  The UN International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea ordered on Saturday the release of ARA Libertad, the Argentine naval training ship which has been detained in Ghana since October at the request of holders of defaulted Argentine state bonds.

• Saturday, December 15th 2012 - 06:33 UTC

  Argentina’s official November inflation 0.9%; half the 1.81% congressional index

  

  Argentina's official inflation was 0.9% in November, rising slightly from October's 0.8% rate, the government stats office Indec said on Friday.

• Saturday, December 15th 2012 - 06:31 UTC

  Mexico ready to drop WTO complaint after reaching auto accord with Argentina

  

  Mexico said it would drop a complaint over import curbs against Argentina before the World Trade Organization after the two countries signed a more limited automobile trade pact.

• Saturday, December 15th 2012 - 06:29 UTC

  “Doctors of the World” claims there are 16.000 living in the streets of Buenos Aires

  

  There are over 16.000 homeless living in the streets of Buenos Aires with great difficulties to access public health services according to the ‘Health in the streets’ report from ‘Doctors of the world’ and which was released Friday in the Argentine capital.

• Saturday, December 15th 2012 - 06:05 UTC

  Victory for Cristina Fernandez: Federal Judge declares constitutional Media Law

  

  Argentine Federal Judge Horacio Alfonso declared that articles 45 and 161 of the controversial 2009 Media Law are “constitutional,” and ordered the injunction that left the application of the law in suspense to be lifted immediately.

• Friday, December 14th 2012 - 20:25 UTC

  Argentine inflation 25.4% in last twelve months according to private estimates

  

  Argentine opposition lawmakers presented November's inflation rate, or ‘Congressional rate’ based in the analysis of nine private agencies, which showed a 1.81% advance against the previous month, accumulating 25.4% in the last twelve months, “the highest in 18 months”.

• Friday, December 14th 2012 - 07:30 UTC

  IMF expected to delay action on Argentina on stats dispute until mid January

  

  The IMF said Thursday that it was unlikely to take action on Argentina failure to supply accurate statistical data before January, if the country misses a deadline next Monday.

• Friday, December 14th 2012 - 06:58 UTC

  P&O cruise vessels choose Falklands over Ushuaia, Puerto Madryn and Buenos Aires

  

  P&O, a subsidiary of Carnival Corporation Plc and one of the world’s leading cruise operators will be omitting Puerto Madryn, Ushuaia and Buenos Aires from its 2013 season because of the difficulties encountered by its red ensign vessels in Argentine ports during recent months. However the company confirms that the vessels will continue to call in the Falkland Islands.

• Friday, December 14th 2012 - 05:15 UTC

  Argentina announces payments of over 3.5bn dollars in GDP-linked bonds

  

  Economy Minister Hernán Lorenzino announced on Thursday Argentina will be making payments for more than 3.5 billion dollars in GDP-linked bonds, at the Economy Ministry.
  Lorenzino presented the payment as a triumph against the hedge-funds.