Warm with mix of sun and clouds
Source: Sun Sentinel
Mexico City :: Mexico | updated 2011-12-25 02:25:01 -0800 | technology-news
We should enjoy mild mornings and warm afternoons most of this week. However, there also is a small chance of rain each day, the result of tropical moisture working its way back into the atmosphere. Monday's forecast calls for a...
Cristina Kirchner called to unity of the Argentine to the global crisis
Posted by: Shaziakhan
Buenos Aires :: Argentina | updated 2012-04-18 14:41:02 -0700 | business-news
Shortly after the release of the first results of the presidential elections in Argentina, the head of state of this country, the Peronist Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner, re-elected with 52.8% of the vote, has called for "national unity in a...
Historic victory of Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner
Posted by: Shaziakhan
Buenos Aires :: Argentina | updated 2012-04-18 14:41:02 -0700 | business-news
President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner won Argentina's presidential election and validated a new mandate. With 15.5% of votes counted, the president would have obtained 53.04% of the vote, the Socialist Hermes Binner, 16.9% and the radical Ricardo Alfonsin, 13.2%. The...
US Tobacco Giant Philip Morris to Close its Uruguay Plant
Posted by: myscottishfitba
Montevideo :: Uruguay | updated 2012-04-12 16:02:33 -0700 | business-news
The US tobacco giant Philip Morris will close its plant in Uruguay after damages caused to its deadly market by the country's anti smoking law. The “extreme” tax and regulatory measures had “shifted market dynamics,” AFP quoted Nicolas Echeverria, general...
Novartis will invest 300 million dollars for a vaccine plant in Brazil.
Posted by: Vicky247
São Paulo :: Brazil | updated 2012-04-19 12:39:26 -0700 | business-news
"Construction in Brazil of the first floor of biotechnology to industrial scale is the most important investment of Novartis in the country so far," said on Tuesday the Swiss laboratory through a press release. This operation "supports the objective of...
GPS rival Galileo satellites' launch set
Source: United Press International
Kourou :: French Guiana | updated 2011-12-21 17:54:23 -0800 | technology-news
The first two satellites of Europe's Galileo navigation system, billed as the main rival to GPS, were to be launched Friday, the European Commission said. The satellites, the first of 30 the European Space Agency intends to launch, had been...
Freeport-McMoRan Won't Strike Out
Source: The Motley Fool
Jakarta :: Indonesia | updated 2011-12-22 09:30:21 -0800 | political-news
There's little question that Freeport-McMoRan, the world's largest publicly owned copper producer, has become the victim of as many strikes as my suddenly hapless Boston Red Sox. FCX ) Grasberg facility at Papua, Indonesia, is the most significant,...
Tea Party buys in to trade
Source: The Hill
Seoul :: South Korea | updated 2011-12-18 17:47:50 -0800 | political-news
Rep. Tom Reed (R-N.Y.) told The Hill a consensus formed among the newcomers that the trade deals deserved their support. I think what you are seeing demonstrated in the freshman class is that we are willing take on that political...
Chery to still build factory in Brazil
Source: Chinadaily
São Paulo :: Brazil | updated 2011-12-18 17:48:22 -0800 | political-news
Despite the Brazilian government's decision to raise taxes on imported vehicles, Chery announced on Oct 9 that it will not cancel its plans to open a new factory in Jacarei, Sao Paulo, sources reported. Chery had held a lavish ceremony...
Wealth managers are expanding in Brazil
Posted by: Vicky247
Seabra :: Brazil | updated 2012-04-19 12:39:35 -0700 | business-news
Regulators are closing the circle, now, on so-called financial-asset managers known as family offices - to avoid the disorderly proliferation of such activity. "There are many people in the informal sector," summed up George Wachsmann, chairman of the Financial Asset...
Southern Copper’s burnt fingers worth $1.3 billion
Posted by: ReporterPXT
Lima :: Peru | updated 2012-04-10 15:31:25 -0700 | business-news
Bloomberg reports Grupo Mexico must return $1.3 billion to Southern Copper Corp. for forcing the unit to overpay for Minera México, a Delaware judge ruled. The court found that the terms of the 2005 merger was unfair to Southern Copper...
MEET MILLER PUBLISHING LIMITED CEO, ROSHANE O. MILLER
Posted by: Caribbean Emagazine
Kingston :: Jamaica | updated 2012-04-03 19:45:39 -0700 | business-news
Founder, Chief Executive Officer and Publisher at Miller Publishing Limited, Roshane O. Miller is one of the Caribbean's most innovative and dynamic forces in publishing today. The 22 year old read for a degree in International Relations with Minors in...
"McDONALD'S" PROBLEMS IN BRAZIL
Posted by: CATALINA
São Paulo :: Brazil | updated 2012-07-27 18:07:56 -0700 | business-news
McDonald's grabbed denounced for exploiting workers in Brazil. Since variables timetables imposed on them forcing them to workers, constant availability, but without adequate remuneration. The Sector Workers Union Services has filed a complaint with the Human Rights Commission of the...
Selling to the rich? Look to the US not China or India
Posted by: ReporterPXT
Coronel Fabriciano :: Brazil | updated 2012-04-10 15:32:41 -0700 | business-news
A new report from research firm TNS could have implications for mining. A survey of affluent households around the world — defined as greater than $100,000 — found that 80% of the world’s wealthy live in Western countries. TNS’s Global...
Water and Electricity Create Shocking Dividend Growth
Source: The Motley Fool
São Paulo :: Brazil | updated 2011-12-14 20:12:54 -0800 | political-news
AWK went public in 2008, calculations use three-year rates (two for dividends -- one missed payment in 2011). ** SBS went public in 2002, calculations use nine-year rates (eight for dividends). ^NGG went public in 2005, calculations use six-year rates...
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