Economy

Monday, October 24th 2011 - 19:33 UTC
Australia exports 969 tons of high quality beef, mostly rump to Brazil

Australia has been sending beef to the world’s two largest beef exporting countries United States and Brazil. Australian beef exports to Brazil during the first nine months of 2011 jumped 381% year-on-year, to 969 tonnes swt, underlining the growing Brazilian demand for higher quality imported beef, mainly among steakhouse chains in the Sao Paulo region, reports meat-trade-news-daily.
Monday, October 24th 2011 - 06:50 UTC
Argentine patrols harass Falklands’ licensed jiggers outside the port of Montevideo

Spanish jiggers operating in the South Atlantic with Falkland Islands licences complain they are been harassed by the Argentine Navy just a few miles away from the port of Montevideo where they call for discharging, maintenance and bunkering.
Monday, October 24th 2011 - 06:45 UTC
Argüello claims the UK is ‘stealing’ fisheries resources from Argentine Malvinas

Jorge Argüello, Argentina's permanent representative to the United Nations, accused the United Kingdom of stealing Argentine fisheries resources around the Falkland/Malvinas Islands.
Monday, October 24th 2011 - 06:41 UTC
Philip Morris shuts down plant in Uruguay because of anti-smoking policies

The US tobacco giant Philip Morris said on Friday it shut down its plant in Uruguay because the country's anti-smoking policies make business unprofitable.
Monday, October 24th 2011 - 06:31 UTC
Sarkozy to Cameron: “you hate the Euro so stop telling us what to do”

French President Nicolas Sarkozy launched a scathing attack on British Prime Minister David Cameron at Sunday's EU summit, saying he was “sick of him telling us what to do,” Britain's press reported.
Saturday, October 22nd 2011 - 11:02 UTC
The modern lords of finance are losing their immunity, says Paul Krugman

As the Occupy Wall Street movement continues to grow, the response from the movement’s targets has gradually changed: contemptuous dismissal has been replaced by whining. (A reader of my blog suggests that we start calling our ruling class the “kvetchocracy.”) The modern lords of finance look at the protesters and ask: Don’t they understand what we’ve done for the U.S. economy?
Saturday, October 22nd 2011 - 10:45 UTC
After seven years of negotiations Obama signs US/Colombia trade agreement

President Barack Obama signed into law the free trade agreement with Colombia Friday, marking the end of seven years of legislative effort. Obama also signed similar trade agreements with Panama and South Korea. The US Congress sent the trade bills to Obama after ratifying the agreements October 12.
Saturday, October 22nd 2011 - 04:29 UTC
“Closer political links with Brazil” can be expected if CFK is re-elected

The most certain re-election of Cristina Fernandez as Argentina president on Sunday 23 October is expected to signal more intense and closer relations with Brazil, expanding to other foreign affairs issues and working on a shared international agenda according to analysts from both countries .
Saturday, October 22nd 2011 - 04:28 UTC
Protestors march in Manhattan and camp before London’s St Paul cathedral

Occupy Wall Street inspired protestors were on the move on Friday in two emblematic places of both New York and in London: in the financial heart of Manhattan and before St Paul’s Cathedral.
Saturday, October 22nd 2011 - 04:26 UTC
CFK poised for landslide victory and control of the congress on Sunday

Argentine president Cristina Fernandez (CFK) should be comfortably re-elected Sunday with a landslide victory which according to the latest public opinion polls indicate a support ranging from 52% to 55%