Cemex shares rallied on Thursday after the Mexican cement maker posted better-than-expected operating profit, which offsets a loss of sales due to bad weather in its largest market and a weaker peso. Operating income in the second quarter was $665.9 million, according to a filing, above the average estimate of $615.2 million compiled by Bloomberg. ...
This Sunday, July 28, Venezuelans will go to the polls again to elect a new president. This time there is greater hope that Nicolás Maduro will close a mandate that has already lasted 11 years, the popular voice prevails, which according to the polls 59.1% is with the opposition candidate Edmundo González, the country emerges ...
Chile seeks to create the first center ofand artificial intelligence computing in Latin America next year, to support research, start-up development, announced this Wednesday the Minister of Science, Aisén Etcheverry. He also explained that the development bank of Latin America and the Caribbean CAF is working on a feasibility study so that the center can ...
Venezuelans will go to the polls in a presidential election in which Maduro is seeking a third term against opposition candidate Edmundo González. “We support peaceful elections,” White House spokesman John Kirby said.at a regular briefing in Washington. “Any political repression and violence is unacceptable.” Asked whether Maduro had the ability to rig the election ...
Reckitt Benckiser Group plans to sell some home care brands and review options for its infant formula business as the consumer company seeks to revive growth after a period of underperformance. Slower-growing home care products, including Cillit Bang cleaners and Airwick air fresheners, generated almost £2 billion ($2.6 billion). in revenue last year, the U.K.-based ...
Financial Daily – Santiago Following a thorough review of all its assets initiated in February of this year, the mining multinational Anglo American It plans to divest the less profitable ones and focus on expanding copper production. after the failed attempt to BHP to acquire the company. And with that goal in mind, Anglo American ...
The Minister Secretary General of Government, Camila Vallejo, described the substitute indication that the Executive will present with various changes to the corporate governance and financing method of Televisión Nacional de Chile as a “necessary transformation and modernization”(TVN)which includes funding via endowment of the State estimated at US$ 30 million. That is, a fund that ...
Compañía de Tierras del Sud Argentino, the local arm of the Benetton family holding company, is the largest landowner in the country and its businesses are beginning to transcend their agricultural core with disruptive diversifications.Its CEO, Agustín Dranovsky, told El Cronista that the group is facing a mega project to produce green hydrogen in the ...
US Vice President Kamala Harris announced that will seek the Democratic presidential nomination after Joe Biden’s exit from the 2024 racewhile endorsing his former running mate to take his place. “I am honored to have the President’s endorsement and intend to win this nomination,” Harris said in a statement Sunday.I will do everything in my ...
Israeli forces shelled several areas in the Gaza Strip on Saturday, killing at least 30 Palestinians.according to health officials, as tanks advanced west and north of Rafah. Among the dead were local journalist Mohammad Abu Jasser, his wife and two children, by an Israeli attack on their home in the northern Gaza Strip, a doctor ...
