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Economy & Business - October 2006
ARGENTINA: Consumption kicks up a gear
The biggest year-on-year increase in supermarket sales for two and a half years, in August, shows that Argentine consumers are getting the economic bit between their teeth. So far, the economy has yet to run into obvious capacity constraints, though the energy position still looks precarious. The worry is that over the past three years, foreign direct investment in Argentina has averaged less than 2% of GDP each year.
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- Interest rates on the way down
- What Carstens might do
- ARGENTINA: Consumption kicks up a gear
- URUGUAY: The prospects for the tourist season
- CHILE: Government opts for spending
- PARAGUAY: The debate over the exchange rate
- BOLIVIA: Beating expectations
- COLOMBIA: Central bank increases rates
- ECUADOR: The electricity law
- VENEZUELA: Bit of a boom
- PERU: Pretty rosy
- COSTA RICA: Manufacturing does well
- CUBA: More trade with China
- DOMINICAN REPUBLIC: Investigation into Baninter scandal takes new turn
- EL SALVADOR: Record fuel bill in 2006
- GUATEMALA: Worries about customs overhaul
- HONDURAS: Fuel licences to be announced on 1 November
- NICARAGUA: Ortega promises to cooperate with the IMF
- PANAMA: Growing fast
- MEXICO: Thirty-year bond launch
- REMITTANCE REPORT: Mexico tries to explain surge in remittances
- COMPANY FOCUS: CVRD joins the big boys
- DEBT: Argentina eyeing Asia
- COCA: US gives guarded welcome to new Bolivian coca policy
- BANANAS: Ecuador and Colombia to sue European Union
- MINING: Bolivian mines "nationalised"
- ENVIRONMENT: Colombia: Environmental damage costs more than war