Brazil
Economy
Spanish integrated oil and gas producer Repsol YPF has announced plans to spend between US$1.5 and US$2bn on developing the potentially vast crude oil reserves discovered at Brazil's...
2008-07-03Finance
Latin America's largest Coca-Cola bottler and the world's second-largest in terms of volumes, Coca-Cola FEMSA, announced on June 26 that it has acquired Refrigerantes Minas Gerais...
2008-07-02Finance
The fight continues between the Venezuelan government and steelmaker Sidor, over the appropriate price for Ternium's 60% stake in the company. Venezuela's national assembly announced...
2008-06-18Finance
South Korea's Samsung Heavy Industries (SHI) has agreed to purchase a 10% stake in Brazil's Atlântico Sul Shipyard. The stake, worth US$22mn, will help SHI capitalise on the shipyard's...
2008-06-18Economy
The Bolivian state has taken over US-based Ashmore Energy's remaining stake in the Transredes pipeline company after failing to reach a share buyback agreement with Ashmore.
2008-06-04Finance
Brazilian mining and metals giant Val do Rio Doce's CEO Roger Agnelli announced on May 03 that Vale, the world's biggest iron-ore producer, will build a steel mill in Brazils Pará...
2008-06-04Finance
Brazil's top lenders are vying for control of Nossa Caixa, the largest state-controlled regional bank in the country. The São Paulo bank has attracted interest from federally-controlled...
2008-05-30Finance
The largest steel-maker in the Americas, Gerdau Group, has entered into a strategic alliance with Corporación Centroamericana del Acero (CCA) in Central America. In the deal announced...
2008-05-02
