Archive for March 19th, 2012
Apple sold a record three million of the new iPhone in three days
The technology giant Apple announced today that in just three days has sold three million units of the new star model of your device iPad from its launch last Friday, in the U.S. and nine other countries. “The new iPhone is a success, with three million sales, the best iPhone launch in our history,” said [...]
Spain signs an agreement to expedite the export of olives to the U.S.
Secretary of State for Trade, Jaime García-Legaz, closed in the U.S. today an agreement to ensure and facilitate the access of Spanish olives to the United States has said the senior official told Efe. At a meeting in Washington with Edward Avalos, under secretary of agriculture, García-Legaz got a commitment for the system of inspections [...]
Opening Asia and protection from future crises focus IDB Assembly
The favorable economic winds for Latin America, a mechanism of protection against future crises and openness to Asia as rising market, focus the discussions at the Annual Meeting of the Interamerican Development Bank (IDB) which ends today in Montevideo. “While complacency is tempting, it is our great danger. We must seize the window of opportunity [...]
Apple responds to the demands of Wall Street with its first dividend since 1995
The technology giant Apple said today its first dividend payment since 1995 and a massive share buyback program to the demands of Wall Street investors, who sought for months to distribute part of the nearly 100,000 million dollars in cash at its disposal. “We used some of our cash to make large investments in our [...]
The continued rise in fuel concern to the Government of Portugal
The unstoppable rise of fuel prices returned to live today a new episode in Portugal and left the gas above the 1.75 euros per liter in some parts of the country. Luso Prime Minister, Pedro Passos Coelho (PSD, center right), considered that these continuous increases lead to higher costs for the national economy plunged into [...]
IDB and China build an investment fund of 1,000 million dollars in Latin America
The Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) today announced the formation of an investment fund in Latin America and the Caribbean with China worth 1,000 million dollars, focused on sustainable development projects. The fund, expected to start operations later this year, is the result of a letter of intent signed by the IDB and the Export-Import Bank [...]
YPF responds to the Argentine government on a new week of tensions
Argentina’s YPF oil company, controlled by the Spanish Repsol, the last statement of releases to try to stop the onslaught of the Argentine authorities in a week you could lose new operating licenses in the west. The oil present his defense today to the government of the province of Mendoza and will do the same [...]
Apple announces the payment of dividends and the repurchase of 10,000 million shares
The computer group Apple announced Monday the start of a dividend payment scheduled for the summer, and the launch of a program to repurchase shares for a total of 10,000 million dollars over three years . Apple said it will pay a quarterly dividend of $ 2.65 per share due to its loose state cash, [...]
Illegal miners blocked the Pan American before the dialogue with the Government of Peru
Thousands of illegal miners blocked today different stretches of the Panamerican highway in Peru, hours before the start of dialogue with the Government to try to resolve protests in the jungle region of Madre de Dios, local television reported. Miners blocked this morning from kilometer 442 to 488 of the Panamericana Sur highway between the [...]
The 15% of Greeks who receive help can not justify their disability
The 15 percent of the Greeks who receive some form of disability pension have not been able to justify why they receive it, according to a census released today by the Ministry of Health to combat fraud. The investigation began last year when it was discovered that the island of Zante, about 40,000, there were [...]
