Economy

• Tuesday, November 17th 2020 - 09:25 UTC

  Argentina meat industry plans investments to increase exports 33% in three years

  

  Argentine meat processing plants will invest US$ 187 million in a bid to increase exports from the country by 33% over three years to 1.2 million tons per year, the head of a local trade group said on Monday during a conference with government officials.

• Monday, November 16th 2020 - 09:20 UTC

  Argentine economic team in preventive isolation after contacts with IMF mission member tested positive

  

  Economy Minister Martin Guzman and other Argentine officials were placed in preventive isolation on Sunday after a member of a visiting IMF mission tested positive for COVID-19, the government said.

• Monday, November 16th 2020 - 07:00 UTC

  Asia-Pacific 15 nations sign the world's largest free trade pact: 2,2bn people and a US$ 26,2 trillion GDP

  

  Asia Pacific nations including China, Japan and South Korea on Sunday signed the world’s largest regional free trade agreement, encompassing nearly a third of the world’s population and gross domestic product.

• Saturday, November 14th 2020 - 08:20 UTC

  During September for the fifth month running economic activity is picking up in Brazil

  

  Economic activity in Brazil rose in September for the fifth month, a central bank survey showed on Friday, more than economists had expected, pointing to a solid recovery in the third quarter from the worst of the COVID-19 shock earlier in the year.

• Friday, November 13th 2020 - 14:00 UTC

  Chilean financial system at risk by the continuing pandemic, central bank warns

  

  The continuing coronavirus pandemic poses the most significant risk to Chile’s financial system as institutions’ capacity to take mitigating action diminishes, the country’s Central Bank warned in a report on Wednesday.

• Friday, November 13th 2020 - 08:00 UTC

  Johnson's most powerful advisor, controversial Dominic Cummings leaves by end of the year

  

  Dominic Cummings quit as British Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s most powerful aide and will leave by the end of the year. The news will plunge the Prime Minister’s leadership into a rough situation at a critical time for the UK as it navigates the closing stages of Brexit.

• Thursday, November 12th 2020 - 09:13 UTC

  Haiti still waiting for Swiss courts to free funds stolen by dictators, more than thirty years on

  

  More than 30 years after the overthrow of Jean-Claude Duvalier, Haiti is still waiting to get back the fortune that the dictator and his family deposited in Switzerland. The delay is down to legal intrigues being played out in the Swiss courts.

• Thursday, November 12th 2020 - 09:04 UTC

  Some 15 million negatively financially impacted by pandemic in UK; StepChange charity urges support

  

  Britain is 'sleep-walking' into a personal debt crisis with the number of people in severe debt problem topping a million due to the coronavirus pandemic, charity StepChange has warned.

• Tuesday, November 10th 2020 - 11:44 UTC

  Brazil allows import of genetically modified soy and corn from United States

  

  Brazil has issued a protocol instruction legally authorizing imports of genetically modified (GM) soy and corn from the United States at a time when Brazil is dealing with low stocks and record prices for these products.

• Tuesday, November 10th 2020 - 10:27 UTC

  Montevideo port loses lure for Falklands licensed Spanish fishing fleet

  

  At least four Spanish fishing vessels, which normally operate in the South Atlantic, most of them with Falklands' licenses, left for Vigo and Marin in Galicia, avoiding transshipment operations in the port of Montevideo, Uruguay, according to the country's leading Maritime and ports information report.