SANTIAGO, May 15 (BERNAMA-NNN- MERCOPRESS) – Latin America and the Caribbean received last year a record US$173.4 billion in foreign direct investment (FDI), 6.7 per cent more than in 2011, despite an international context characterised by shrinking FDI flows worldwide, according to the United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (Eclac). The […]
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Asian stocks rose as Japan’s Nikkei 225 Stock Average climbed above 15,000 for the first time since January 2008 after the yen touched a 4 1/2-year low against the dollar, boosting the earnings outlook for exporters. Sony Corp. surged 12 percent as billionaire Danie Loeb pushed for the initial public offering of the Japanese electronics […]
Alicia Bárcena made the presentation of the report which said the region received 173bn dollars in FDI Changing the production structure from mining and non processed agriculture is one of the main challenges facing the region The success can be tracked to the region’s […]
Argentina received 27 percent more of the foreign direct investment (FDI) last year than in 2011, according to a report released by the United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (CEPAL in Spanish). However, it represents only 2.3 percent of the GDP or USD 12.551 billion. The region’s FDI expanded 6.7 percent […]
Argentina received 27 percent more of the foreign direct investment (FDI) last year than in 2011, according to the report released by the United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (CEPAL in Spanish). However, it represents only 2.3 percent of GDP or USD 12.551 billion. The region’s FDI expanded 6.7 percent last […]
MIDDLETOWN, R.I., May 13, 2013 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — KVH Industries, Inc. (Nasdaq:KVHI) today announced that it has acquired Headland Media Limited, a media and entertainment services company. Headland Media is a leading provider of commercially licensed news, sports, movies, and music content that they sell in the maritime, hotel, and retail markets. “The acquisition of […]
By Kyoko Hasegawa (AFP) – 24 minutes ago TOKYO — Toyota on Wednesday said its full-year net profit more than tripled to $9.7 billion, with a weak yen and cost-cutting helping inflate the bottom line for the world’s biggest automaker. The Japanese giant also said it was on track for another soaring profit in the […]
Jaron Lanier’s latest book, Who Owns the Future?, begins by noting an instructive coincidence: the bankruptcy of the photography giant Kodak occurred within months of Facebook’s billion-dollar acquisition of the photo-sharing site Instagram. This would be just one example of the destructive dynamism of American capitalism, a process through which old companies are overtaken by new technology and new […]
Question-and-Answer Session Unidentified Analyst Why is it better to own the real estate than to lease the facilities or what other options there are? Scott Krenz There are sub-leases, one is purely financial that the implicit cap rates in these leases is higher than we can mortgage the properties for. So there is an interest […]
Australia’s 4G spectrum auction has shattered expectations around the value of the 700MHz spectrum under the hammer. Just two-thirds of the 90MHz of low-band ‘digital dividend’ spectrum on offer was purchased; combined with a sold-out auction for a larger slice of the much cheaper 2.5GHz band, that netted the federal coffers some A$1.96 billion – […]
