With government budgets across Europe set to shrink significantly in the coming years, the parent company of Airbus predicted that the group’s military business would become increasingly focused on markets in Asia, Latin America and the Persian Gulf and it hinted that the outsourcing of European aerospace jobs to those regions was all but inevitable.
“It [...]
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The World Bank consultant and specialized in Mexican Border Affairs, Antonio de la Oza, said in an interview that the great challenge of customs in the country and the world are fighting terrorism, laundering and drug trafficking.
He said he has visited some offices in the country, and “they work very well operationally speaking, safety and, excluding [...]
China ruled out resumption of soybean oil imports from Argentina in the next few months after talks between trade officials failed to resolve a dispute over anti- dumping measures, said two traders and an industry official.
Issues include China’s request that Buenos Aires recognizes it as a “market economy,” which would limit the size of anti- [...]
President Barack Obama is committed to finalizing free-trade agreements with Colombia and Panama but faces an uncertain outcome, U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said on Wednesday.
Speaking at a Council of The Americas conference of leaders from the Western Hemisphere in Washington DC, Clinton expressed some chagrin at seeing colleagues from Colombia and Panama, which [...]
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Federal prosecutors have opened an investigation into trading at Goldman Sachs, raising the possibility of criminal charges against the Wall Street giant, according to people familiar with the matter.
While the investigation is still in a preliminary stage, the move could escalate the legal troubles swirling around Goldman.
The Securities and Exchange Commission, which two weeks ago [...]
Brazil, the world’s second-largest soybean oil exporter, said it’s “ready” to boost sales to China after the Asian nation blocked shipments of the commodity from Argentina, the biggest global supplier.
“We’ll try to occupy the biggest space possible left open by Argentina,” Brazilian Agriculture Minister Wagner Rossi said late yesterday in a telephone interview from Brasilia. [...]
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Russia will sell weapons worth around $5 billion to Venezuela, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said, after returning to Moscow from a recent trip to Caracas where he met with Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez. The figure includes a $2.2 billion loan Moscow offered to Caracas, UPI reports. Putin noted the orders would be [...]
Chinese buyers will remove almost all Argentine shipments of soybean oil, between 200 and 250,000 tonnes per month between May and July.
China’s retaliated due to the anti-dumping measures from Argentina towards chinese products.
Argentina considered this as a measure of chinese retaliation against the southamerican country, which recently launched anti-dumping taxes and investigations against [...]
SAN FRANCISCO — “ A fund manager at an emerging markets conference I covered more than a decade ago delivered a warning to investors infatuated with those markets that aged well” wrote David Callaway in Marketwatch, yesterday.
“Did anyone ever notice that the emerging markets of the 1990s are the same emerging markets of the 1890s?” he said [...]
Technology stocks put in a strong performance Tuesday, but Google Inc. was one exception, as the Internet giant’s shares retreated following a company decision to challenge government-imposed censorship laws in China.
Late Monday, Google said it had begun redirecting traffic from its Google.cn Chinese-language search engine to its Google.com.hk site, which is based in Hong Kong. [...]
