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...Last month S&P upgraded Paraguay’s rating to BB+, one rung below investment grade, bringing it in line with Moody’s and Fitch....
...Q2 Friday Malaysia: GDP figures for the second quarter of the year Moody’s is due to release its updated ratings for Switzerland, Moldova; Fitch is due to update its rating for the Netherlands, and S&...
...Almost three-quarters of all seaborne Russian crude flows travelled without western insurance in August, a lever used to enforce the G7’s $60-a-barrel oil price cap....
...One adviser, Daniel García-Peña, quit within months, saying “a despot from the left, just because he is from the left, does not stop being a despot”....
...’s text; and “Lumee’s Dream” by Ellen Reid, libretto by Roxie Perkins, from their Pulitzer Prize-winning opera p r i s m....
...Stumbling blocks: N26’s decision to pull out of the UK less than two years after launching there has drawn plenty of comment....
...The bilateral deal announced on Monday by Mr Trump — during a televised phone call with Enrique Peña Nieto, his counterpart in Mexico — signalled a US willingness to ease recent strains with its traditional...
...Both the S&P 500 and Nasdaq Composite opened at new record highs, with the S&P 500 up 0.76 per cent to 2,896.49 in early afternoon trading. The Nasdaq Composite up 0.87 per cent to 8,015.34....
...US stocks also soared, with the S&P 500 and Nasdaq Composite both ending the day at all-time highs. Shares in US carmakers also rose....
...In Sydney the S&P/ASX 200 added 0.4 per cent, helped by miners and financials....
...“We have an active swap with China that the previous government left us and we will try to make it bigger,” Mr Peña said in an interview in London....
...The first called for the cancellation of Mexico City´s new airport, which is already 30 per cent built. The second sought popular support for his 10 main social and infrastructure programmes....
...Presidents Enrique Peña Nieto of Mexico, Mauricio Macri of Argentina and Sebastián Piñera of Chile also congratulated Mr Bolsonaro on his victory....
...“The central bank is in charge of the situation,” Marcos Peña, the cabinet chief, told reporters on Thursday....
...for the gluttonous bourgeois family blind to the suffering on their doorstep, and a tender operatic pastiche for Nonna Luna: “non più pena; non più freddo”....
...R-e-s-p-e-c-t. That’s what Mexico wants out of Friday’s meeting between US President Donald Trump and Mexico’s Enrique Peña Nieto – their first face-to-face talks since the US election....
...(FT, Guardian, HuffPo) In the news The wall muddles Peña Nieto’s trip Mexico’s President Enrique Peña Nieto slammed Donald Trump’s decision to sign an executive order to authorise construction of a border...
...If 2016’s presidential campaigns reshaped US politics, 2018 could see the same in Latin America. Populists, riding the angry mood, stalk the land....
...Microsoft, which fell foul of an antitrust suit in 1999, and subsequently found that many of its effective monopoly positions were whittled away by technological advances, has underperformed the S&P over...
...Three other directors — Enrique Hernandez, Federico Peña and Cynthia Milligan — also received less than 60 per cent backing....
...Donald Trump has threatened a 20 per cent import tax to finance his much-vaunted border wall shortly after Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto cancelled a planned summit in Washington in response to the...
...Now, the PRI is back in power under the very unpopular Enrique Peña Nieto, and the next election takes place next July....
...S&P Global Ratings last month lowered its outlook on Mexico’s sovereign debt to negative from stable, following in the footsteps of fellow rating agency Moody’s in March....
...Japan’s Topix was up 0.4 per cent, while Australia’s S&P/ASX 200 returned from a public holiday and rose 0.5 per cent. Hong Kong’s Hang Seng was down 0.2 per cent....
...The Dow is up nearly 10 per cent since Mr Trump’s victory and the S&P 500 has gained 7.4 per cent....
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