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Economy

  • Tuesday, July 31st 2007 - 21:00 UTC

    New attempt by China to cool the economy (and trade partners)

    People's Bank of China headquaters

    For a sixth time this year China tightened credit on Monday in a new effort to cool its roaring economy, ordering banks to shrink the pool of money for lending by increasing their reserves.

  • Tuesday, July 31st 2007 - 21:00 UTC

    Latinamerica energy future is promising but autarchic

    Latinamerica is set to invest 267 billion US dollars in energy projects in the next two decades according to the United Nations Economic Committee for Latinamerica and the Caribbean, CEPAL.

  • Monday, July 30th 2007 - 21:00 UTC

    Uruguay has 3.8 cattle per capita, highest in the world

    Hereford and Aberdeen Angus the most extended breeds

    Uruguay currently has a cattle herd of 12 million head with beef becoming the main export commodity of the country, over a billion US dollars last year. Based on this it can be said that Uruguay is the country with the highest number of cattle per capita, 3.8.

  • Saturday, July 28th 2007 - 21:00 UTC

    Kirchner claims there's a plot to hike inflation indexes

    Argentine prosecutors have requested that Domestic Trade Secretary Guillermo Moreno and the newly-appointed Beatriz Paglieri, the official in charge of calculating inflation, be summoned to testify.

  • Saturday, July 28th 2007 - 21:00 UTC

    IMF candidate says bridging rich/poor gap is essential

     Strauss Khan begins a world tour is support of his candidacy

    Bridging the gap between rich and poor countries should be as high a priority for the International Monetary Fund as helping to solve the world's financial imbalances, Dominique Strauss Kahn, the probable next managing director of the IMF told the Financial Times.

  • Saturday, July 28th 2007 - 21:00 UTC

    US Congress warns Beijing about “unfair” Yuan manipulation

    A key United States Senate committee supported new measures to protect US business and workers from what it says are unfair currency manipulation by China. The move is seen as a warning to China which US politicians say has depressed the value of the Yuan to boost trade.

  • Saturday, July 28th 2007 - 21:00 UTC

    Volatility hits regional sovereign bonds risk assessment

    Regional sovereing bonds losse ground

    Chile's country risk assessment shot this week to its highest level since August 2003 but is still the lowest in Latinamerica. International volatility with investors selling stocks and higher risk bonds and moving into more stable US bonds is seen as the cause behind the events of last week.

  • Friday, July 27th 2007 - 21:00 UTC

    Global stock markets plunge on fears of credit crunch

    United States Treasuries surged Thursday in a flight to safety as stocks plunged in the US and Europe on growing fears of a global credit crunch and weaker than expected economic data.

  • Friday, July 27th 2007 - 21:00 UTC

    US calls on Argentina to honor repudiated sovereign debt

    The American Task Force Argentina (ATFA) applauded Wednesday the US Government for formally stating for the first time that the government of Argentina must honor the repudiated sovereign debts owed to international creditors, “including over 20 billion US dollars in default claims by international bondholders” and that these lingering issues “adversely impact Argentina's investment climate”.

  • Friday, July 27th 2007 - 21:00 UTC

    US economy surprises with strong 3.4% growth in Q2

    The United States economy grew faster than expected over the past three months, 3.4% on an annual basis, the best quarterly performance since early 2006. In the previous quarter the economy expanded 0.6%.