Financial Diary – Santiago SQM, the second largest lithium supplier in the world, is resuming operations in northern Chile following the lifting of road blocks by local communitiesa company official reported Monday. The last blockades that had restricted the movement of workers and supplies for almost a week were lifted on Sunday, as authorities try ...
Oil prices in Europe have risen as fears over supply disruptions across the Red Sea and from Libya they encourage refineries to hurry to secure shipments. Spot prices for North Sea and Mediterranean crude oil have become much more expensive than the global benchmark Dated Brent in recent days. This is happening as Houthi attacks ...
Donald Trump is the heavy favorite to overtake his rivals and claim an early victory in the race for the Republican presidential nomination as Iowans brave the frigid temperatures on Monday to cast the first votes of the 2024 campaign. The former president’s dominant position has turned the first Iowa contest into a race for ...
Asian stocks are set for a broadly mixed open on the back of reinforced Fed rate cut bets and the elections of Weekend Taiwan. Stock futures in Australia and Hong Kong pointed to an early rise when trading begins, while contracts in Japan fell. The S&P 500 was little changed on Friday, posting a weekly ...
President Joe Biden said Saturday that the United States had delivered a private message to Iran about the Houthis backed by Tehran and responsible for attacking commercial shipping in the Red Sea. “We have transmitted it privately and we are sure that we are well prepared“Biden told reporters at the White House before leaving for ...
The Ecuadorian president, Daniel Noboa, asked lawmakers to consider raising the value-added tax to fund their efforts to combat criminal gangs, as the armed forces intensified their operations in violent areas on Friday. A dramatic increase in violence this week – including the on-air assault of a television station, the hostage-taking of 178 prison staff ...
Inflation’s Shaky Path Toward the Federal Reserve’s 2% Targetreflected in the latest figures of the Consumer Price Index (CPI), means it is likely too early to cut the policy rate in Marchsaid the president of the entity in Cleveland on Thursday. “I think March It’s probably too early for a rate cut, because I think ...
The Colombian passport is not among the most powerful in the world, but it is among those that have improved the most in the last decade, according to the annual report prepared by the consulting company Henley & Partners. The ranking places the country outside the top 10 in Latin America and within the top ...
Mergers and acquisitions in Latin America and the Caribbean declined last year, according to the most recent report produced by Transactional Track Record. The statistics reflect that these movements added US$74.12 billion in 2023, a drop of 24.37% compared to the same period of the previous year. If you look at the amount of business ...
U.S. aviation safety officials recovered the fuselage panel that exploded during an Alaska Airlines flight on Jan. 5, as authorities begin gathering evidence to learn what led to the sudden decompression of the nearly new Boeing Co. 737 Max 9 plane. . The finding will help investigators examine what went wrong on Flight 1282, which ...
