Mercosur

• Sunday, November 19th 2006 - 20:00 UTC

  Petrobras daily production reached 2.3 million bpd

  Brazil's government owned Petrobras averaged during October oil and gas production of 2.343.451 barrels which is 4.7% above the same month a year ago and 1.6% up from September 2006.

• Sunday, November 19th 2006 - 20:00 UTC

  APEC pledges global trade but considers options

  Leaders from the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation forum pledged to tackle a deadlock in global trade talks after ending Sunday their key regional summit in Vietnam but are also considering alternatives for when they meet next year in Australia.

• Saturday, November 18th 2006 - 20:00 UTC

  Pulp mills dispute: “no negotiations under pressure”

  Uruguayan authorities “will not negotiate under pressure” was the short message to the Spanish King envoy that arrived Friday in Montevideo acting as a “facilitator” in the controversy with Argentina over the construction of pulp mills.

• Saturday, November 18th 2006 - 20:00 UTC

  Industrial production up 7.3% in October

  Argentina's October industrial output expanded a smaller-than-expected 7.3%, with the automobile and construction sectors continuing to drive growth, the government said on Friday. Local analysts had forecast a 7.9% rise in industrial output.

• Saturday, November 18th 2006 - 20:00 UTC

  Gibraltar/Barajas Madrid flights begin December 16th.

  Normal air services between Gibraltar airport and Madrid Barajas are to commence next December 16th, according to a joint press statement from the participants in the Forum of Dialogue on Gibraltar released Friday.

• Saturday, November 18th 2006 - 20:00 UTC

  Argentina suspends corn exports

  Argentina, the world's second-biggest corn exporter has suspended “for an undetermined period” new corn export orders beginning November 20 in the latest effort by the government to rein in inflation.

• Saturday, November 18th 2006 - 20:00 UTC

  Argentina considering Falklands' war joint commemoration

  Argentina's Defence Minsiter Nilda Garré confirmed Friday in Puerto Belgrano that a British invitation to jointly commemorate the 25th anniversary of the Falklands/Malvinas conflict is currently under consideration by the Argentine Ministry of Foreign Affairs, reports the Buenos Aires press.

• Saturday, November 18th 2006 - 20:00 UTC

  WTO head at Uruguay Round XXth anniversary

  World Trade Organization Director General Pascal Lamy is scheduled to visit Montevideo the coming week to participate in the twentieth anniversary of the GATT Uruguay Round (*).

• Saturday, November 18th 2006 - 20:00 UTC

  Milton Friedman, father of Chile's biggest economic revolution

  Milton Friedman, one of the world's best-known economists and winner of the 1976 Nobel Prize for Economics, died of heart failure last Thursday in San Francisco.

• Friday, November 17th 2006 - 20:00 UTC

  King's envoy visits all the K's men

  In his first meetings with government officials since arriving in Argentina on Wednesday, Spaniard Juan Antonio Yáñez-Barnuevo was handed documents that Buenos Aires considers essential in its argument against the construction of a paper pulp mill on the Uruguayan side of the Uruguay River.