• USA

    How the bottom half lives

    THERE is not just one Mexico, a common line runs, but two of them. The northern half of the country—the states bordering America and the Bajío region to the south of them—is the “North American” Mexico, an area of higher productivity, faster growth and greater levels of foreign investment. To ...

  • Cina

    Sleepy giant

    CHINESE business leaders will gather on June 26th in Tianjin, a charmless industrial city near Beijing, for the annual “Summer Davos” conference. This talking shop for big shots, organised by the World Economic Forum, will feature endless discussions about the fourth industrial revolution, panels on the internet of things and ...

  • USA

    Free and easy listening

    A chorus of disapproval IN LOVE or in business, it is not a good idea to be on the wrong side of Taylor Swift. She has slated ex-boyfriends in her songs. And last year she publicly criticised Apple Music’s plan not to pay artists during the streaming service’s launch period. Apple ...

  • Brasile

    Oi boy

    A bad call “OI” IS a cheerful, informal greeting in Brazilian Portuguese. But after the telecoms operator of the same name made the largest bankruptcy-protection filing in Brazilian history on June 20th, the country may finally be saying goodbye to its hopes of creating a strong, state-backed national champion. Brazil’s interim ...

  • Turchia

    Silver linings

    A leg up for security firms REFUGEES arriving on Aegean islands are whisked to “hotspots”—registration centres run by the European Asylum Support Office. It is often a traumatic moment. Those who fear being sent back to Turkey can turn angry or violent. “We have had a number of riots, staff have ...

  • Perù Ecuador

    Estatales petroleras de Perú y Ecuador firman memorando de cooperación

    Las empresas estatales PetroPerú, de Perú, y, Petroamazonas, de Ecuador, firmaron hoy un Memorando de Entendimiento que estudia la posibilidad de establecer mecanismos de cooperación para la producción y transporte de crudo entre ambos países, según informó la compañía peruana en Lima.

  • Nicaragua

    Nicaragua prohíbe entrada al mercado de productos costarricenses Dos Pinos

    La empresa costarricense de lácteos Dos Pinos informó que Nicaragua cerró de "manera sorpresiva" la frontera a sus productos y que no podrán exportar dado que las "plantas no han sido habilitadas".

  • Cuba

    Remesas a Cuba en 2015 alcanzaron la cifra récord de $3,354 millones

    El envío de remesas a Cuba ha experimentado un crecimiento sin precedentes en la isla y convertido este mercado en el de "crecimiento más dinámico" de Latinoamérica, con la cifra récord de 3.354 millones de dólares en 2015, señaló hoy en un artículo la consultora The Havana Consulting Group.

  • Brasile

    Despesa pública brasileira não pode continuar a crescer, diz Meirelles

    Henrique Meirelles Arquivo/Wilson Dias/Agência Brasil Ao participar hoje (23), do Congresso de Tecnologia da Informação das Instituições Financeiras da Federação Brasileira de Bancos (Ciab- Febraban), em São Paulo, o ministro da Fazenda, Henrique Meirelles, disse que a despesa pública brasileira não pode continuar a crescer, e que é preciso manter ...

  • Brasile

    Ministro rejeita cobrança do INSS sobre exportações do agronegócio

    O ministro da Agricultura, Blairo Maggi, rejeitou hoje (23) a proposta de cobrar INSS das empresas exportadoras do agronegócio. A proposta é estudada como parte da reforma da Previdência Social que está sendo preparada pelo governo do presidente interino Michel Temer. A ideia de cobrar contribuições à Previdência Social já ...