Investments

Saturday, June 26th 2010 - 07:41 UTC
Investing in Panama: An exclusive Report from Alternative Latin Investor

Alternative Latin Investor (ALI), the first and only online news source to provide information on alternative investments in Latin America, has just released an in-depth report on the Panamanian investment environment.
Saturday, June 19th 2010 - 02:46 UTC
Brazil opens steel mill, largest private sector investment in 15 years

Brazilian President Lula da Silva, mining giant Vale Doce CEO Roger Agnelli and ThyssenKrupp CEO Ekkehard Schulz inaugurated on Friday Brazil's newest steel mill, Cia Siderurgica do Atlantico (CSA).
Monday, June 14th 2010 - 04:21 UTC
India’s giant iron ore project in Bolivia stalled; China also interested

Bolivia and India’s Jindal Steel & Power one of the world’s leading steel manufacturers are scheduled to sign an addendum to the contract for the exploitation of the Mutún iron ore reserves with the purpose of unlocking the “lack of investments” according to Mines minister Jose Pimentel.
Tuesday, June 8th 2010 - 16:23 UTC
Falklands’ Rockhopper raises £48.5 million to fund more offshore drilling operations

Rockhopper Exploration announced on Tuesday it had raised £48.5m from the stock market to fund its drilling operations off the Falklands Islands. Last week Rockhopper revealed that its first well in the North Falkland Basin, called Sea Lion, had found much more oil than expected.
Saturday, June 5th 2010 - 08:25 UTC
Exclusive premium farms’ project in Uruguay wins British Architects award

KallosTurin Architects have won an international award from the Royal Institute of British Architects, RIBA, for the design and construction of two farm houses in an environmental friendly residential development in one of Uruguay’s most fashionable resorts.
Thursday, June 3rd 2010 - 06:47 UTC
Falklands Rockhopper oil company shares drop in spite of recent discovery

Rockhopper Exploration said Wednesday there’s no reason to believe that oil discovered in the Falkland Islands will not comply with quality expectations as originally stated.
Wednesday, June 2nd 2010 - 02:41 UTC
Oil drilling begins in unexplored Falkland Islands’ south east waters

Falkland Oil & Gas (FOGL) in association with BHP Billiton became the third oil company this year to begin exploratory drilling operations in Falkland Islands’ waters according to a Tuesday release from the company.
Wednesday, May 26th 2010 - 06:13 UTC
Chilean investments abroad rise sharply in first quarter of the year

In the first quarter of 2010 Chilean businesses invested 1.7 billion US dollars abroad, seven times more than in the same period in 2009, according to the Santiago Chamber of Commerce (CCS).
Tuesday, May 25th 2010 - 10:26 UTC
Argentina’s Soy King praises Uruguay and its farming revolution

Gustavo Grobocopatel also known as the Soy King of Argentina praised Uruguay’s conditions for corporate growth and said the country in the last seven years has undergone “revolutionary changes”.
Monday, May 24th 2010 - 03:33 UTC
Morales tells Spanish companies their investments in Bolivia are protected

Investments by Spanish firms are protected in new Bolivian regulations, but companies involved in plots against the government will not be forgiven, said President Evo Morales on Sunday during a fence-mending speech.