09/08/2010
Clinton sees insurgency in Mexico's drug cartels
Hillary Clinton, the US secretary of state, has said drug-related violence in Mexico and Central America is turning into an insurgency, underlining Washington's concern at the bloodshed beyond its southern border
More Info
|
09/08/2010
Argentina ready for IMF deal on Paris Club debt
Argentina has reversed policy and is ready to accept International Monetary Fund scrutiny of its much-questioned public accounts in order to reach a deal to repay $7bn owed to western government creditors in the Paris Club
More Info
|
09/08/2010
Canada lifts rates despite slower growth
The Bank of Canada has raised its key interest rate for the third time in as many months, despite an increasingly turbulent economic outlook.
More Info
|
09/07/2010
Gods of prosperity are smiling on Peru's economy
Perceptions of an encouraging macroeconomic situation and probable further appreciation of the currency are supportive
More Info
|
09/07/2010
Venezuela currency rationing hits home
Marxists believe in the determinism of economics, so it should come as no surprise that Hugo Chávez's economic vision of "21st-century socialism" is wreaking unusual effects in Venezuela. One is the possibility that even government officials may struggle to make mobile phone calls when working abroad
More Info
|
09/07/2010
Mexico enters elite bond index
Move sparks strong inflows of foreign investment in peso bonds, particularly from Japan
More Info
|
09/06/2010
Landslides kill 38 in Guatemala
At least 38 people have been killed and an estimated 60 are missing in Guatemala after heavy rains caused devastating landslides over the weekend
More Info
|
09/06/2010
Brazil stakes future on $75bn Petrobras offer
The mere fact Brazil is attempting this now, and on the eve of a presidential election, is a sign of brazen confidence
More Info
|
09/03/2010
Brazilian growth outstrips forecast
Brazil's economy grew at an annualised rate of 8.9 per cent in the first half of 2010, defying expectations of a more significant slowdown in the second quarter and signalling that the country may beat its previous forecast of 7 per cent growth for the year
More Info
|
09/02/2010
Stable Brazil expected to grow 7% this year
Brazil's economy has settled into a period of more sustainable growth, expanding at a slower rate than the breakneck pace seen in the first quarter while recovering from a sudden slowdown in the second, economists say
More Info
|
09/02/2010
Mining taxes
Copper's rise to fund Chilean reconstruction
More Info
|
09/01/2010
Chile pushes for mining tax increase
The president sends to Congress a revised bill to increase a key mining tax in a bid to raise $1bn to help fund reconstruction efforts following the devastating earthquake in February
More Info
|
08/31/2010
Time to press on with our plan in Havana
These mooted reforms are welcome, but the Obama administration should still be looking to do much more to help the people of Cuba, writes Christopher Sabatini
More Info
|
08/31/2010
Cocaine's cowboys
Blood and death. Latin America's war against drugs is following a familiar pattern – as are the arguments for and against it. Twenty years ago, Colombia beat down the drug cartels. Now it is Mexico's turn
More Info
|
08/31/2010
Work begins to free Chilean miners
Work began on a 700-metre tunnel down to the refuge where the miners were discovered on August 22
More Info
|
