Tag: Argentina

• Monday, May 23rd 2011 - 00:09 UTC

  Argentina and Chile organize winter land SAR operation in Antarctica

  

  Argentina and Chile Antarctic organizations are planning this year’s edition of the Search and Rescue training operation which is scheduled to take place sometime between August and September in the Antarctic Peninsula

• Sunday, May 22nd 2011 - 22:46 UTC

  Argentina and Peru main recipients of Chilean investments in services sector

  

  Argentina and Peru are the top recipients of Chilean overseas investments in the service sector according to report released last week covering a two decade period from 1990 to 2010.

• Sunday, May 22nd 2011 - 13:26 UTC

  Argentine economic activity expands 7.8% in March over a year ago

  

  Economic activity in Argentina expanded 7.8% in March compared to the same month a year ago and 0.5% over February, according to the provisional percentages from the government’s National Statistics Institute, INE.

• Sunday, May 22nd 2011 - 12:40 UTC

  Rousseff’s main advisor describes Brazil/Argentina relations as “fine”

  

  Brazilian president Dilma Rousseff's international affairs advisor Marco Aurélio García lowered the tone of the trade conflict with Argentina and said that the relationship between both countries “is fine” despite the trade barriers that Brazil imposed on the import of Argentine cars.

• Saturday, May 21st 2011 - 09:59 UTC

  Argentina posts strong primary surplus pushed by economic growth and inflation

  

  Argentina posted a primary budget surplus 1.97 billion Pesos (455 million US dollars) in April, up 4.8% from the 1.88 billion Peso surplus a year earlier, the government said on Thursday.

• Saturday, May 21st 2011 - 09:40 UTC

  Inflation expectations in Argentina for the next twelve months: 29.5%

  

  Inflation expectations for the next twelve months in Argentina dropped to 29.5% in May from 30.3% in April according to the latest report from the Financial Investigation centre from the Torcuato Di Tella University, CIF.
  This is the first time in twenty months that the index is below 30%.

• Saturday, May 21st 2011 - 09:34 UTC

  Brazil/Argentine dispute abating as trade begins to normalize

  

  The trade dispute among Mercosur main partners seems to be abating from the moment Brazil authorized on Friday the introduction of 1.000 cars manufactured in Argentina that had been retained in Customs since the implementation of non automatic import licences.

• Saturday, May 21st 2011 - 09:19 UTC

  Argentina April industrial production grows 8% over a year ago

  

  Argentina's industrial production rose a seasonally adjusted 8% on the year in April, led by an expansion in automobile, metals and chemical output. Manufacturing increased 0.5% in seasonally adjusted terms from March, the national statistics agency, Indec, reported Friday.

• Saturday, May 21st 2011 - 03:19 UTC

  Argentina closes squid fisheries until June 18 for conservation

  

  Argentina’s Federal Fisheries Council, CFP, ordered the closure of the squid (Illex argentinus) fishery to the south and north of parallel 44° as from 21 May until June 18 because of a low resource biomass.

• Thursday, May 19th 2011 - 17:08 UTC

  Pillars of Argentina’s productive model and re-industrialization process are “solid”

  

  Economy Minister Amado Boudou said that the pillars of the ‘productive model’ and re-industrialization process implemented by the Argentine government are solid consolidating social inclusion and distribution.