The sharpest decline in Argentina oil production for the last 65 years
The production of hydrocarbons in Argentina had a very poor performance in 2011. Oil extraction in the South American country fell 5.9% last year to 33,231,359 cubic meters, according to the...
View ArticleArgentina, 30 years of the Falklands War and a difficult time for investment:...
There has been three decades that Argentina and Britain joined a war at the Falklands. The war has a bunch of issues to be explored. Author of the book Rabinos de Malvinas (Rabbis from the Falklands),...
View ArticleHow YPF nationalization affects other markets
Argentina was not in the best time already for international investments when Cristina Kirchner had announced the nationalization of YPF last week. The announcement scared a lot of investors fearing...
View ArticleInvestments for Everyone – Interview with book author, Mariano Otálora
Mariano Otálora is an Argentinian figure who has tried to spur investments in his country. His third book “Invesiones para todos” (Investments for all) is a new attempt to explain the difficulties,...
View ArticleVale gives up on $5.9bn potash project in Argentina
Vale announced that will suspend the potash project called Rio Colorado in Argentina. The mining giant already had invested US$ 1.1 billion and was expected to put at least US$ 5 billion more. The...
View ArticleSlim’s purchase of YPF brings optimism to Buenos Aires’s Merval
An unexpected 8.5 percent purchase of YPF by the world's richest man, Carlos Slim, has brought also optimism for the Buenos Aires stock exchange Merval. After weeks of losses due to the seizure of 51...
View ArticleSilver Standard Resources: case of a successful business in Argentina
Argentina currently is not considered by investors as the lucrative destination. There are many reasons influencing this trend: country has fought an inflation of over 25 percent, taxes are rising on...
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