Investments

• Tuesday, April 20th 2021 - 10:45 UTC

  Brazil's Anvisa green-lights studies of new Chinese covid-19 vaccine

  

  Brazil's National Health Surveillance Agency (Anvisa) has given the green light to clinical trials on volunteers of a potential anti-Covid-19 vaccine produced by the Chinese laboratory Sichuan Clover Biopharmaceuticals, it was announced.

• Tuesday, April 20th 2021 - 10:24 UTC

  Chile's SQM to supply lithium to Johnson Matthey for electric car batteries

  

  The Chilean Chemical and Mining Society (SQM), one of the world's largest lithium producers, will supply lithium hydroxide to the British firm Johnson Matthey, at least until 2028, according to a new contract signed on Monday, it was announced.

• Thursday, April 15th 2021 - 09:26 UTC

  Argentine laboratory seeks to manufacture Sputnik V vaccine locally

  

  The Argentine firm Laboratorios Richmond Wednesday launched the Financial Trust “Project V.I.D.A. (Project and Immunization for Argentine Development),” to seek financing for the development of the plant where the Russian-designed Sputnik V vaccine is to be manufactured locally.

• Saturday, April 10th 2021 - 10:58 UTC

  Brazil's Anvisa to check Russian Sputnik V manufacturing plant as need for vaccines soars

  

  Brazil's National Health Surveillance Agency (Anvisa) will be sending a delegation to Russia next week to conduct an onsite review of the facilities where the Sputnik V vaccine is manufactured, it was announced Friday.

• Wednesday, April 7th 2021 - 09:01 UTC

  Rio de Janeiro lawmakers now against renaming Maracana stadium after Pele to focus on covid-19 fight

  

  The Legislative Assembly of the Brazilian state of Rio de Janeiro (Alert) Tuesday decided to go back on its steps and drop the initiative to rename the iconic Maracana stadium after football legend Pelé.

• Wednesday, April 7th 2021 - 07:17 UTC

  Mar del Plata's Sheraton Hotel closes for… ¿two months?

  

  The Sheraton Hotel in the Argentine beach resort of Mar del Plata Tuesday decided to shut down for two months and take advantage of a Labor Law clause that allows companies to keep their staff earning 75 per cent of their salaries in crisis such as the coronavirus pandemic.

• Tuesday, April 6th 2021 - 08:30 UTC

  Chilean TV station changes hands between US owners

  

  Pending governmental approval, US giant ViacomCBS is expanding its Latin American investment scheme by buying over the Santiago-based Chilevisión TV station, which was announced Monday.

• Monday, April 5th 2021 - 09:30 UTC

  Scania CEO in Argentina foresees record exports for 2021

  

  Scania CEO Andrés Leonard Sunday said in an interview he foresaw a 75% increase in “exports from Tucumán to the world” of bus and lorry gearbox parts.

• Friday, April 2nd 2021 - 09:58 UTC

  One power plant starts operating in Argentina, foundations laid for another

  

  The 21 MW thermoelectric power plant of Río Turbio Carboniferous Field Wednesday at 8 am began to generate electricity and deliver it to the National Interconnected System, it was announced.

• Wednesday, March 31st 2021 - 16:04 UTC

  Argentina says Uruguay is authorised to dredge Montevideo port to 13 metres only

  

  In 2020, the Uruguayan government agreed on a framework agreement for the dredging and widening of the access channel to the port of Montevideo, which provoked criticism from neighbouring Argentina. Now the Argentine government has informed Uruguay that it has authorized the dredging of the access channel to the port of Montevideo to only 13 meters, and not 14, as announced by the current and previous Uruguayan governments.