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...Know your message Brands need to understand that sustainability goes beyond reducing the carbon footprint of a product, said Positive Luxury co-founder Diana Verde Nieto....
...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....
...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....
...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....
...If 2016’s presidential campaigns reshaped US politics, 2018 could see the same in Latin America. Populists, riding the angry mood, stalk the land....
...(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...
...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...
...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....
...Mexico’s currency got a lift from news that President Enrique Peña Nieto had held a call with Mr Trump....
...Behind this lies the huge disappointment that the bold structural reforms enacted by President Enrique Peña Nieto have — so far — failed to boost the economy as envisaged, with S&P blaming weak governance...
...That is not helped by the prospect of Mexico’s lowest oil production in nearly four decades this year and a sense of political paralysis with President Enrique Peña Nieto’s popularity in the basement....
...Appearing on BBC Radio 4’s Desert Island Discs in November 2014, she requested a lifetime’s subscription to Vogue as a luxury and observed that “women shouldn’t feel they have to walk like a man”....
...On June 7, Mexican voters will go to the ballot box in mid-term elections that will be viewed as a test of the Enrique Pena Nieto presidency and of the ruling PRI party....
...Actions which contribute to Mexican competitiveness can therefore help to increase U.S.and Canadian economic well-being by increasing North American manufacturing competitiveness overall....
...He added the government would also analyse Article 19’s report and that it would “serve to strengthen policies to protect the work of journalists in Mexico”....
...With nearly four years remaining of his government, Mr Peña Nieto has no time to waste. One of the most direct postcards read: “I am tired of my children thinking their country is s**t.”...
...Pena Nieto has already been under pressure over a series of conflict-of-interest scandals around properties acquired from government contractors....
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