Tag: economic activity

• Thursday, February 28th 2019 - 09:18 UTC

  Argentina's economic activity dropped 2.6% in 2018, says Indec

  

  Argentina's economic activity fell 2.6% in 2018 versus the previous year, government statistics agency Indec said on Wednesday, underscoring the turmoil that dragged the country into recession last year.

• Friday, January 25th 2019 - 10:10 UTC

  Argentine twelve-month economic activity to November contracts 7.5%

  

  Economic activity in Argentina slumped 7.5% in November, the INDEC statistic bureau reported on Thursday. The comparative drop in activity from November 2017 and November last year was the most significant since June 2009's eight per cent slump.

• Thursday, December 6th 2018 - 08:45 UTC

  Argentine manufacturing and construction declines during October

  

  Manufacturing in Argentina fell 6.8% in October year on year, while construction declined 3.7%, and in the first ten months of this year 2.5% and 4.9% respectively according to the Indec statistics bureau report. Firms were hit hard by a contraction in economic activity and the devaluation of the Peso against the US dollar.

• Friday, September 14th 2018 - 08:28 UTC

  Support for Brazilian proposal to safeguard whales in perpetuity: Japan and allies furious

  

  Tempers flared at the International Whaling Commission (IWC) on Thursday as it voted to back a Brazilian proposal which would safeguard whales in perpetuity, after a bitter debate. The biennial meeting of the 89-nation body passed the host country's “Florianopolis Declaration” which sees whaling as no longer being a necessary economic activity.

• Tuesday, January 17th 2012 - 07:00 UTC

  Brazil economy rebounds in November boosted by domestic consumer spending

  

  Brazil’s economy grew at its fastest pace in 19 months in November, reversing a three-month contraction, as a recovery in consumer spending helped Latin America’s largest economy shrug off a global slowdown. Yields on interest rate futures rose.