Economy

• Friday, October 9th 2020 - 09:36 UTC

  Chile's foreign trade improving as September exports pick up

  

  Chile's overseas trade reached almost US$ 93,5 billion, between January and September this year, an 11% drop year on year, the president Sebastián Piñera government announced on Thursday.

• Friday, October 9th 2020 - 08:56 UTC

  A woman will lead WTO for the first time: South Korean and Nigerian ministers in the final round

  

  The World Trade Organization (WTO) announced on Thursday that South Korea’s trade minister and a Harvard-trained former Nigerian finance minister have qualified as the two finalists to become the next director-general, ensuring a woman in the top job for the first time.

• Thursday, October 8th 2020 - 08:50 UTC

  World trade with signs of recovery but still much conditioned to the evolution of the pandemic

  

  World trade is showing signs of recovery after the slowdown caused by the Covid-19 pandemic, but the recovery still remains uncertain, according to a report from the World Trade Organization, WTO. The global entity’s new world trade volume projections are for a decrease of 9.2% for 2020 followed by a 7,2% increase next year.

• Thursday, October 8th 2020 - 08:49 UTC

  Chile exports beef to China, and imports from Paraguay for domestic consumption

  

  Chilean beef exports reached 16,673 tons between January and August 2020, a 35.7% over the same period last year according to data from the Bovine Meat Bulletin released by the Ministry of Agriculture’s Office of Agricultural Studies and Policies (ODEPA).

• Tuesday, October 6th 2020 - 09:35 UTC

  IMF admits Brazil's economy is doing better than forecasted, but warns about debt and a second Covid-19 wave

  

  Brazil's economy is set to shrink by 5.8% in 2020, the International Monetary Fund said on Monday, revising up an earlier forecast but warning the country faced “exceptionally high” risks.

• Monday, October 5th 2020 - 09:39 UTC

  Brazilian business sector confidence almost at pre pandemic levels

  

  Brazilian business-sector confidence in the economy rose 3 points in September to pre-pandemic levels, according to a report released by na outstanding foundation..

• Monday, October 5th 2020 - 09:01 UTC

  Johnson does not want to end Brexit transition without a new trade deal, but can live with such an outcome

  

  British Prime Minister Boris Johnson does not particularly wish for the Brexit transition period to end without a new trade deal in place but believes that Britain could live with such an outcome, he said on Sunday.

• Saturday, October 3rd 2020 - 08:36 UTC

  Boris Johnson’s Cunning Plan; If PM Johnson is Blackadder, who is his Baldrick?

  

  By Gwynne Dyer – “I’ve got a plan so cunning you could put a tail on it and call it a weasel,” said Blackadder’s sidekick Baldrick in the BBC’s brilliant historical comedy series ‘Blackadder.’ In fact, he said, “I have a cunning plan” in almost every episode, but the plans hardly ever worked, and it became a popular catch-phrase.

• Saturday, October 3rd 2020 - 08:36 UTC

  Merkel and UK remain optimistic on a post Brexit-deal, but “the fisheries gap is unfortunately very large”

  

  German Chancellor Angela Merkel said she had no breakthrough to announce on Friday as a week of EU talks with Britain ended, but remained optimistic that sealing a deal on a post-Brexit trade relationship was still possible before the end of the year.

• Friday, October 2nd 2020 - 09:51 UTC

  IMF mission expected next week in Argentina, announced minister Guzmán

  

  Argentina's Economy Minister Martin Guzman said on Thursday that a mission from the International Monetary Fund will arrive in the country next week as the country looks to negotiate a new program with the organization.