Uruguay

• Monday, December 13th 2010 - 03:18 UTC

  Uruguay’s Central bank contracts auditing firm for 2010/2012

  

  Stavros Moyal y Asociados S.R.L., the Russell Bedford accounting group's Uruguayan firm, has won the contract to audit the Central Bank of Uruguay (Banco Central del Uruguay). The audit was won in public competition against Big-4 firms for the period 2010 - 2012.

• Thursday, December 9th 2010 - 16:31 UTC

  Moody’s rates Uruguay just below ‘investment grade’ but next step 'distant'

  

  Moody's Investors risk Service raised the sovereign foreign currency credit rating for Mercosur member Uruguay by two notches to Ba1 from Ba3 on Wednesday, leaving it just below investment grade, citing improved debt and fiscal indicators.

• Tuesday, December 7th 2010 - 08:29 UTC

  Chinese credit rating agency gives Uruguay grade BB+ for local and foreign currency

  

  A Chinese credit rating agency issued the sovereign credit ratings for Ireland and four other countries including Uruguay, assigning Ireland the BBB grade for both local currency and foreign currency with a stable outlook.
  The other four countries rated are Finland, Uruguay, Kenya and Sudan.

• Tuesday, December 7th 2010 - 08:21 UTC

  Bank of Nova Scotia confirms acquisition of leading institution in Uruguay

  

  Bank of Nova Scotia, the Canadian bank that is aggressively expanding its presence in Latin America, is now pushing into Uruguay with the acquisition of private bank Nuevo Banco Comercial and consumer-finance company Pronto, it said on Monday.

• Friday, December 3rd 2010 - 06:29 UTC

  Uruguay headed for a record year in exports; Brazil main trade partner

  

  Uruguay’s exports jumped 23.3% during the first eleven months of 2010, anticipating a new value record for the year. Exports totalled 6.1 billion US dollars between January-November compared to 4.95 billion in the same period a year earlier and are higher than the twelve month previous record of 6.1 billion in 2008, according to Uruguay’s Exporters’ Union.

• Thursday, December 2nd 2010 - 21:25 UTC

  Uruguay praises Unasur; no agreement yet on next secretary general

  

  Unasur has been a fundamental factor of stability, democracy and peace for the region said Uruguay’s Foreign Affairs minister Luis Almagro, following on Uruguay’s Parliament’s ratification of the group’s founding charter and constitution. However Almagro admitted consensus on a name for Secretary General of Unasur is still pending.

• Thursday, December 2nd 2010 - 19:38 UTC

  Canada’s Scotiabank ready to take over Uruguay’s third largest private bank

  

  Canadian Scotiabank (NYSE: BNS) is close to purchase the US private equity firm Advent’s stakes in Uruguay's third largest private sector bank Nuevo Banco Comercial (NBC) and consumer credit company Pronto!, was reported Thursday in Montevideo.

• Friday, November 26th 2010 - 02:18 UTC

  Uruguay’s Lower House approves Unasur; Senate votes next Tuesday

  

  Uruguay’s Lower House approved on Thursday the Unasur (Union of South American Nations) constitution protocol sending a strong message of support to the group’s summit in Guyana.

• Thursday, November 25th 2010 - 21:25 UTC

  First time ever woman president (for a few days) in Uruguay

  

  Uruguay’s First Lady and speaker of the main Senate group in the ruling coalition Lucia Topolansky will be sworn as interim president on Friday, the first woman-president in the history of the Uruguayan democracy.

• Thursday, November 25th 2010 - 04:26 UTC

  The Economist analyzes Uruguay’s debate on rejecting the “Expiration Law”

  

  Néstor Kirchner Argentina’s late former president first became popular by pushing for the repeal of the amnesties and pardons that prior governments had granted to members of the country’s bloody 1976-83 dictatorship. Argentines cheered when the Supreme Court ruled the laws unconstitutional in 2005, and have supported the hundreds of prosecutions for human-rights abuses that have been launched since then.