Mercosur

Thursday, June 5th 2008 - 21:00 UTC
US dollar dips in Chile but “should rebound” to 500 pesos

The US dollar in the Chilean money market fell back to 480 pesos on Thursday after having reached 490 on Wednesday following on several days of gradual recovery.
Thursday, June 5th 2008 - 21:00 UTC
May marks highest monthly inflation in Chile since 1994

Chile's Consumer Price Index soared 1.2% in May, far above forecasts (0.6%), and the highest since May 1994 (1.4%) and also the most significant monthly variation since March 2003, according to the country's Statistics Office.
Wednesday, June 4th 2008 - 21:00 UTC
Barack Obama is finally confirmed presidential nominee

Barack Obama rocked a Minnesota crowd Tuesday night, making presidential campaign history.
Sunday, June 1st 2008 - 21:00 UTC
Brazil offers Central America Mercosur and ethanol

Brazilian president Lula da Silva during his official visit to El Salvador invited Central American nations which are grouped in the integration system, SICA, to join Mercosur and strongly promoted the use of ethanol.
Thursday, May 29th 2008 - 21:00 UTC
Chile's Bachelet, the most popular Latam leader...in Spain

Although Chilean president Michelle Bachelet and the ruling coalition are facing growing challenges for Spain's public opinion she' the most popular leader that side of the Atlantic according to the latest Latinbarometro 2007 report.
Thursday, May 29th 2008 - 21:00 UTC
Punta Arenas honors British pioneer and Magallanes explorer

The city of Punta Arenas in the extreme south of Chile honored the memory of a Royal Navy Rear Admiral who was head of a British hydrographic expedition the first directly involved in the charting of waters in the Region of Magallanes between 1826 and 1830.
Wednesday, May 28th 2008 - 21:00 UTC
Mercosur leaders summit July first in Tucuman

Argentina will be hosting the XXXV Mercosur summit at the end of June when the six months rotating chair or pro-tempore presidency will be passed on to Brazil.
Tuesday, May 27th 2008 - 21:00 UTC
Brazil announces a regional central bank and common currency

After having formally launched last Friday the Union of South American Nations, Unasur, the region in on track to creating a Central Bank and a common currency announced this week Brazilian president Lula da Silva.
Tuesday, May 27th 2008 - 21:00 UTC
March 08 recorded sharpest drop in US cars miles traveled

United States are driving much less forced by fuel prices, continuing a trend which began last November and has been confirmed by the latest March 2008 release from the Federal Highway Administration, FHWA.
Monday, May 26th 2008 - 21:00 UTC
Islander Mensun's expedition to retrieve Tower guns

IT has taken over 400 years but soon the Tower of London is going to get some of its guns back - at least for a while.