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  • Argentinas Stocks End Lower Blue Dollar Strengthens

    Argentine stocks fared poorly Friday in light trading while the black-market dollar continued to strengthen on media reports that banks will further restrict the ability of customers to withdraw cash while overseas.The Merval index fell 1.34% to 3,509.72 in volume totaling ARS31.3 million ($5.9 million).The power company Pampa Energia SA (PAM, PAMP.BA) led the declines, sliding 3.4% to ARS1.14. ...

  • Petrobras says it has rejected offers for Argentine assets

    RIO DE JANEIRO | Fri May 24, 2013 6:22pm EDT RIO DE JANEIRO May 24 (Reuters) - Brazil's state-controlled oil company Petroleo Brasileiro SA said on Friday that its executive directors rejected offers to buy company assets in Argentina. The announcement, in a securities filing, did not say how many offers were made or which assets were the subject of the ...

  • Argentina Manufacturing Sector Posts Modest Expansion in April

    By Ken Parks BUENOS AIRES--Argentina's industrial production expanded at a modest pace in April, confirming that manufacturing continues to slowly recover from last year's downturn, according to a government report Friday. Industrial output last month rose 0.1% from March, and was 1.4% higher from April 2012 in seasonally adjusted terms, the national statistics agency Indec ...

  • Buenos Aires Province Teachers Announce 48-Hour Strike

    SUTEBA protest (photo: Suteba) After another meeting with the provincial government failed, the Federation of Educators of Buenos Aires (FEB) confirmed yesterday a 48-hour strike for Monday and Tuesday. They will be once again demanding higher wages in their sector. The head of FEB, Mirta Petrocini said that ';today [for yesterday] the provincial government was callous to the teachers ...

  • Citibank Asks U.S. Court for Argentina Bond-Payment Assurances

    Citibank has asked a U.S. district court to confirm that its Argentine banking unit isn't bound by a ruling that bars the Argentine government from making payments on bonds it issued under New York law.Despite a previous ruling to that effect, Citibank is once more seeking assurances that payments made on Argentine law bonds held in custody at Citibank Argentina are beyond the reach of any ...

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The New World

The New World

Given that the gap between writer/director Terrence Malicks second and third films, Days of Heaven (1978) and The Thin Red Line (1998), was a full two decades, the mere seven years between The Thin Red Line and his newest film, The New World, comes close to con ... ...

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  • With opposition support PRO secures press bill in Buenos Aires City

    An alliance between opposition parties Project South and Civic Coalition with the ruling PRO party paved the way for Macri’s controversial press decree to be signed into bill. Helio Rebot -head of the Buenos Aires City Legislature Constitutional Affairs Committee where the DNU emergency decree issued by Mayor Mauricio Macri was being addressed today-, confirmed PRO legislators have ...

  • Cuba Confirms Willingness to Strengthen Ties with Argentina

    Buenos Aires, May 24 (Prensa Latina) Cuban President Raul Castro confirmed in a letter to his Argentina peer Cristina Fernandez his willingness to strengthen ties of friendship and cooperation between the two countries. In the letter released here by Telam news agency, the Cuban statesman greeted the Argentinian president, on the occasion of the commemoration of Argentina's May 25, 1810 ...

  • ‘Argentine case a challenge’

    Washington - The New York legal case over Argentina's debt poses a deep challenge to all future sovereign debt restructurings, the International Monetary Fund said in a report ...

  • ‘Argentine case a challenge’

    Washington - The New York legal case over Argentina's debt poses a deep challenge to all future sovereign debt restructurings, the International Monetary Fund said in a report ...

  • On Heaven and Earth by Pope Francis and Abraham Skorka Will the Church become just another charity

    Vatican watchers will find strong clues about the direction of Pope Francis in On Heaven and Earth: a series of conversations Bergoglio held with Rabbi Abraham Skorka of Buenos ...

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