Investments

• Tuesday, June 30th 2020 - 09:51 UTC

  Alphabet Google removes search ads for paid voting information and registration

  

  Alphabet Inc's Google said on Monday that it had removed search ads that charged users searching for voting information large fees for voter registration or harvested their personal data.

• Tuesday, June 30th 2020 - 07:43 UTC

  Boris Johnson in major speech will pledge billions in public works to jump start the economy

  

  Prime Minister Boris Johnson vowed Britain will spend large sums on hospitals, schools and roads to jump-start the economy as it emerges from the coronavirus lockdown that has plunged the country into what may be the worst recession in three centuries.

• Tuesday, June 30th 2020 - 07:39 UTC

  Norwegian Air Shuttle cancels purchase of 97 jets from Boeing

  

  Norwegian Air Shuttle has notified Boeing that it is terminating purchase agreements for all 97 of its remaining jets on order with the US planemaker. The decision covers 92 of Boeing's 737 Max planes, five 787 Dreamliners and a related maintenance pact, Norwegian said in a statement on Monday.

• Monday, June 29th 2020 - 10:55 UTC

  COVID-19 could crush Argentina’s shale boom

  

  By Nick Cunningham of Oilprice.com – Holding some of the largest shale oil and gas reserves in the world, Argentina is often cited as the likely candidate for the next big shale boom, and Vaca Muerta is often described as having the potential to be South America’s Permian basin.

• Monday, June 29th 2020 - 10:28 UTC

  Facebook advertising boycott campaign preparing to expand to major companies in Europe

  

  Organizers of a Facebook advertising boycott campaign that has drawn support from a rapidly expanding list of major companies are now preparing to take the battle global to increase pressure on the social media company to remove hate speech. The new chapter comes when PepsiCo had decided to stop advertising on Facebook Inc, according to Fox Business News.

• Saturday, June 27th 2020 - 08:11 UTC

  Latam rescheduling and scaling back domestic and international flights

  

  South American carrier LATAM has suspended ticket sales on 23 routes across its network, including several domestic routes within Chile and international routes from Brazil, Chile and Peru. At the same time, the Santiago-headquartered carrier has made the bold move to suspend international destinations from five Argentinean destinations to the carrier’s hubs in Santiago, Lima and Sao Paulo until 2021.

• Friday, June 26th 2020 - 10:52 UTC

  Huge 15 sq km locust swarm threatens Mercosur agriculture

  

  Argentina and Brazil are monitoring the movement of a 15-square-kilometer locust swarm in Argentina’s northeast, though authorities and specialists said so far it had not caused significant damage to crops in the South American countries.

• Thursday, June 25th 2020 - 12:03 UTC

  Uruguay raises US$ 2 billion in dual currency fresh funds

  

  Uruguay raised US$ 2 billion from a dual-currency debt deal on Wednesday, issuing UYU47.1 billion (US$ 1.12 billion) in new inflation-linked, 20-year notes and adding US$ 400 million to its 4.375% 2031 bonds, plus a rescheduling of US$ 500 million in 2027, 2028 and 2030 Indexed Units.

• Thursday, June 25th 2020 - 12:00 UTC

  Expropriation project of Argentine giant soymeal exporter is watered down

  

  Argentina is examining alternatives to the planned expropriation of financially ailing soymeal exporter Vicentin, including a possible private-public partnership, Production Minister Matias Kulfas and other sources revealed on Wednesday.

• Thursday, June 25th 2020 - 06:44 UTC

  Italy guarantees US$ 7 billion loan to Fiat Chrysler as it merges with France's PSA

  

  Italy's government said on Wednesday it would guarantee a 6.3-billion-euro (US$7.1 billion) loan to Fiat Chrysler, as the automaker struggles with the impact of the coronavirus pandemic.