Economy

• Friday, November 7th 2014 - 22:44 UTC

  Despite Rousseff, extreme poverty grows for the first time in a decade

  

  The number of Brazilians living in extreme poverty grew for the first time in a decade, according to government figures. The Institute of Economic Research reported that the number of people in households with incomes below the poverty threshold of 30 dollars rose from 10.1 to 10.5 million people, which means a 3.7% increase.

• Friday, November 7th 2014 - 05:11 UTC

  ECB ready to give the Euro zone further economic stimulus

  

  The president of the European Central Bank (ECB), Mario Draghi, says the bank stands ready to give the Euro zone further economic stimulus “should it become necessary”. The comments boosted shares in Europe. It also prompted a fall for the euro, with analysts increasingly braced for more dramatic stimulus measures.

• Thursday, November 6th 2014 - 07:52 UTC

  YPF manages significant increases in output and profits in the third quarter

  

  Argentina's state-controlled oil firm YPF hydrocarbons' production in the third quarter increased by 15.4% from a year earlier to 573,000 b/d of oil equivalent (boe/d). The rise in production translates into a 13.9% increase from a year earlier for the first nine months of the year to 553,000 boe/d.

• Thursday, November 6th 2014 - 07:37 UTC

  US soybean crushers claim Argentine export taxes distort the market

  

  The American Soybean Association, the National Oilseed Processors Association and the North American Export Grain Association sent comments last week to the U.S. Trade Representative identifying significant barriers to U.S. exports, particularly on the trade distorting impact of Argentine Differential Export Taxes, or DETs, and the artificial advantage provided to soybean products exported from that country.

• Thursday, November 6th 2014 - 07:22 UTC

  Argentina and hedge fund NML Capital ratify their commitment to keep fighting

  

  Argentine Central bank chief Alejandro Vanoli, said the country will be not getting down on its knees in a negotiation with 'vulture funds' (hedge funds), once the January first date comes and the controversial RUFO clause, (preventing Argentina from voluntarily offering holdout creditors better terms than those of its 2005 and 2010 restructurings), falls.

• Wednesday, November 5th 2014 - 23:38 UTC

  The best whiskey in the world is not Scottish, but Japan's Yamazaki

  

  Japanese single malt whiskey has been named the world’s best for the first time by a prestigious guide, which also declined to place a scotch in its top ranking. The Yamazaki Single Malt Sherry Cask 2013 was described as “thick, dry, as rounded as a snooker ball” by Jim Murray’s Whisky Bible, which awarded it a record-matching 97.5 points out of 100. The latest guide was released Monday.

• Wednesday, November 5th 2014 - 22:43 UTC

  Uruguay, “a role model for the region and the world” in tobacco policies

  

  The Pan American Health Organization/World Health Organization (PAHO/WHO) is supporting the Government of Uruguay as it defends its tobacco control policies against claims brought by the Philip Morris tobacco company.

• Wednesday, November 5th 2014 - 07:20 UTC

  Cuba is asking for 8 billion dollars in investment from private corporations

  

  Cuba asked international companies on Monday to invest more than 8 billion dollars in the island as it attempts to kick-start a centrally planned economy starved for cash and hamstrung by inefficiency.

• Wednesday, November 5th 2014 - 06:43 UTC

  The end of an era: Is the US petrodollar under threat?

  

  Recent trade deals and high-level cooperation between Russia and China have set off alarm bells in the West as policymakers and oil and gas executives watch the balance of power in global energy markets shift to the East.

• Wednesday, November 5th 2014 - 05:16 UTC

  Chile chosen by World Bank for Latam’s first Research and Development Center

  

  Chile’s Finance Ministry Alberto Arenas, and the World Bank Group (WBG), represented by its Vice President for Latin America and the Caribbean, Jorge Familiar, signed a cooperation agreement to establish in Chile the first Research and Development Center in Latin America, and the second outside Washington, DC.