Investments

• Friday, February 2nd 2018 - 07:15 UTC

  Argentine airports company struggles to take off in Wall Street public offering

  

  Shares of Corporacion America Airports struggled to get airborne on their market debut on the New York Stock Exchange on Thursday after the Argentine airport operator priced its initial public offering at the lower end of an already reduced range.

• Tuesday, January 30th 2018 - 15:41 UTC

  Falkland Islands Outlines Fiscal Strategy for 2018/19 and Beyond

  

  The Falkland Islands Executive Council (its effective Cabinet) agreed late last week a set of budgeting principles for the Government over the coming financial year beginning 1st July 2018. These principles are likely to apply throughout the four year term of the current Legislative Assembly, though will be formally reviewed by the Assembly annually.

• Tuesday, January 30th 2018 - 07:22 UTC

  Foreign Office planning to ban drilling and mining offshore BOTs in South Atlantic

  

  British Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson is expected to institute a ban on fishing, drilling and freight transport in British overseas territories in the South Atlantic in an effort to protect wildlife in the area. The South Sandwich Islands, which plays host to Antarctic scientists but has no permanent residents, lie around 1,500km east of the Falkland Islands.

• Monday, January 29th 2018 - 06:55 UTC

  Punta Arenas reaffirms Antarctica links with two private support vessels

  

  Punta Arenas. Chile seems determined to remain as the main calling point for Antarctica scientific and logistics support. This month two private undertakings were inaugurated which confirmed that determination, one of them is the DAP's MV Betanzos a scientific vessel for Antarctica research, and the second in the Antarctic Warrior, belonging to the Petromar company and which has been conditioned to transport supplies and fuel to Antarctica.

• Saturday, January 27th 2018 - 09:15 UTC

  Relief in Canada and North Ireland: Bombadier wins trade dispute with the US

  

  The Canadian aerospace firm which faced damaging import tariffs on one of its jets has won a trade dispute in the United States. The UK government had suspected that Bombardier would lose and unions feared sales and UK jobs connected to the C-Series would be hit. But in a surprise ruling, the US International Trade Commission (ITC) rejected a complaint brought by Boeing.

• Friday, January 26th 2018 - 09:46 UTC

  Uruguay and China flirt with a trade agreement, but Mercosur is not convinced

  

  Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi said that Beijing is willing to negotiate step by step, a free trade agreements with Uruguay and other countries in South America, particularly members of Mercosur.

• Thursday, January 25th 2018 - 07:05 UTC

  Brazil shares surge as Lula's corruption conviction is confirmed ruling him out his presidential bid

  

  Brazilian assets soared, with the Bovespa surging above 83,000 for the first time ever, and the currency Real surging through 3.20 after three judges in a local appeals court upheld a conviction for corruption imposed last July on ex-President Lula da Silva.

• Thursday, January 25th 2018 - 06:39 UTC

  Macri and Putin in Moscow reaffirm Argentina/Russia strategic relationship

  

  Argentine President Mauricio Macri and his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin, signed on Tuesday a declaration aimed at strengthening bilateral cooperation during a press conference at the Kremlin. Macri told Putin that he hoped this marked the first of many visits to the Russian capital and highlighted their countries’ mutual interests.

• Thursday, January 25th 2018 - 06:19 UTC

  Chinese foreign minister in Uruguay to promote trade and investments

  

  Chinese foreign minister Wang Yi arrived in Uruguay on Tuesday night for a three-day official visit which includes meetings with his peer Rodolfo Nin Novoa, president Tabare Vazquez and holding a round of talks to promote trade and discuss the possibility of a bilateral agreement.

• Wednesday, January 24th 2018 - 10:02 UTC

  “Enough is enough”, thousands of Uruguayan farmers tell the government

  

  “Enough is enough”, an end to the bloated state and its fiscal voracity, so that Uruguayan farmers can recover competitiveness, was the clear message from tens of thousands who gathered in central Uruguay to express their disenchantment with president Tabare Vazquez administration attitude towards the rural sector.