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Economy & Business - March 2005
The downside to the soya boom
Both Argentina and Brazil are suffering from a reaction to the boom in soya prices over the past couple of years. Prices weakened from April 2004 to early February 2005, discouraging Brazilian farmers from producing the crop. In Argentina the environmental damage caused by intensive soya farming is beginning to loom large.
- Commodities rise again, changing dynamics
- What's going to happen in 2005?
- Problems loom
- Copom tightens again
- ARGENTINA: Worries mount
- CHILE: Copper boom
- PARAGUAY: Off the bottom
- URUGUAY: Exports buoyant
- VENEZUELA: Unemployment jumps
- BOLIVIA: Congress approves hydrocarbons law
- COLOMBIA: Government defeated by dollar
- PERU: Exports surge
- ECUADOR: Bit of a boom
- NICARAGUA: Inflation stalks
- PANAMA: Decent growth in 2004
- COSTA RICA: Coffee worries
- CUBA: Drought worsens
- DOMINICAN REPUBLIC: Growth of 2% in 2004
- EL SALVADOR: Business call for shift to 5% plus growth
- GUATEMALA: Protests over Cafta
- HONDURAS: Strike to back 2000 wage demand
- The downside to the soya boom
- Nickel; oil; sugar
- COFFEE: Bulls in control
- MEXICO: Reforms of state sector possible eventually
- GUATEMALA: Up by 9%
- DEBT: The Argentine debt swap