Economy

• Tuesday, November 22nd 2016 - 10:56 UTC

  TPP without the US would be “meaningless” says Japanese PM Shinzo Abe

  

  The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) trade deal would be “meaningless” without US participation, Japanese prime minister Shinzo Abe said as United States President-elect Donald Trump announced he planned to quit the pact. PM Abe’s comment on Monday (Tuesday morning) came shortly before the Mr Trump released a short video about his plans for his administration, including an intention to have the US drop out of the TPP pact.

• Tuesday, November 22nd 2016 - 09:48 UTC

  Trump advances plans for his first day: quitting TPP, ending visa abuses and “job killing restrictions”

  

  President-elect Donald Trump says the US will quit the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade deal on his first day in the White House. He made the announcement in a video messaged outlining what he intends to do first when he takes office in January. The TPP trade deal was signed by 12 countries which together cover 40% of the world's economy. Trump also pledged to reduce “job-killing restrictions” on coal production and stop visa abuses.

• Tuesday, November 22nd 2016 - 09:00 UTC

  Santander bank confident of Brazil's “rapid recovery”

  

  President Michel Temer met on Monday with Banco Santander chairman Ana Botin, who expressed the Spanish banking giant's confidence in Brazil's economic future despite the current downturn being experienced by Latin America's largest economy.

• Monday, November 21st 2016 - 12:15 UTC

  APEC summit criticizes protectionism and consider Asia-Pacific free trade area

  

  Peruvian President Pedro Pablo Kuczynski brought the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit to a close in Lima on Sunday with a message against protectionism and awareness that the meeting was held “at a key moment in the world's economic history.”

• Monday, November 21st 2016 - 11:22 UTC

  Nobody is going to invest in Argentina while fearing populism could be round the corner

  

  Even admitting that the Argentine economy will expand 3% next year, nobody wants to invest in the country because they are not sure that populism won't be back in a couple of years, according to economist and former central bank chair Javier Gonzalez Fraga.

• Saturday, November 19th 2016 - 20:27 UTC

  Robots and “reshoring” threaten millions of jobs in developing countries

  

  The increased use of robots threatens millions of jobs in developing countries, by undermining the advantage of low wages and facilitating the “reshoring” of industries back to industrialized countries, according to a new policy brief from UNCTAD.

• Saturday, November 19th 2016 - 18:39 UTC

  Buenos Aires admits poor cruise season because of past mistakes

  

  Buenos Aires cruise season has taken off but it will be far from its peak in 2012/13 when over half a million visitors reached the Argentine capital. This season will only see 81 calls with 323.000 visitors of which 70% foreigners, according to local port authorities.

• Saturday, November 19th 2016 - 08:52 UTC

  Fuel shortages feared in Uruguay due to lorry drivers' strike

  

  The lorry drivers' strike already under way in Uruguay, which broke up as a conflict between freight carriers and the agriculture sectors, may have its impact on the distribution of car petrol, warns Mauro Borzzaconi of the trucking association.

• Friday, November 18th 2016 - 11:47 UTC

  Uruguay with IDB support plans to invest US$600 million in rural roads network

  

  Uruguay plans to improve the rural roads network of the 18 department governments with support from two credit lines for an investment project totalling US$600 million with two initial loans completing US$150 million from the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB). The funds will support the implementation of rural roads construction in agriculture production areas, and will also be geared to improve and strengthen fiscal management and services at the departmental government level.

• Friday, November 18th 2016 - 11:42 UTC

  Latin American exports downward trend is greater than in the rest of the world

  

  Following two years in a downward trend the value of Latin American exports fell 14.8% in 2015, and 8.5% in the first seven months of 2016, according to the Trade and Integration Monitor 2016 of the Inter-American Development Bank. Services exports, which had partially compensated the fall in merchandise trade in previous years, contracted 2.4% in 2015, the first time since the 2009 financial crisis.