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Mexico, overshadowed by Brazil for years, has secured its place as the new favorite among investors looking to put cash into Latin America.
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*Cargill, JBS, Maple Leaf Foods, Olymel biggest Canada packers. MOSCOW, April 5- Russia plans to ban meat imports from most Canadian and Mexican suppliers from April 8 over concerns about the use of the feed additive ractopamine, Russia's veterinary and phytosanitary service said on Friday.
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SEOUL- North Korea has placed two of its intermediate range missiles on mobile launchers and hidden them on the east coast of the country in a move that could threaten Japan or U.S.
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LA PLATA, Argentina-- Argentine police and soldiers searched house to house, in creeks and culverts and even in trees for bodies on Thursday after floods killed at least 57 people in the province and city of Buenos Aires.
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WASHINGTON-- The U.S. trade deficit likely widened in February for a second consecutive month, reflecting a rising foreign oil bill. The Commerce Department will release the report at 8:30 a.m. EDT Friday. In January, the deficit increased by a sharp 16.5 percent to $44.4 billion, as U.S. exports fell, reflecting declines in sales to Europe, China, Japan and Brazil.
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SEOUL/ NEW DELHI, April 5- Asian policymakers braced for a flood of capital unleashed by the Bank of Japan's huge monetary stimulus, but some conceded on Friday the impact on global money flows and currencies might prove to be a necessary side-effect to get the region's No.2 economy growing.
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Airbus recaptured the aircraft industry's top spot in the first quarter as U.S. rival Boeing fell behind on orders and grappled with the grounding of its newest jet.
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*Facebook takes battle for ad revenue, user times to Google. *Facebook's shares climb, Google's fall.
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*Technical support seen near 85- to 86- cent range- broker. NEW YORK, April 4- ICE cotton fell on Thursday, as weekly U.S. government export data were not seen as strong enough to boost prices and losses across commodities markets weighed. The most-active May cotton contract on ICE Futures U.S. fell 0.89 cent, or 1 percent, to settle at 88.33 cents per pound.
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Mexico, overshadowed by Brazil for years, has secured its place as the new favorite among investors looking to put cash into Latin America.
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LONDON, April 4- The International Energy Agency will invite China and other emerging economies to take part in key strategic talks, sources in the IEA said, in a bid to strengthen ties with non-members whose share in global oil demand has rapidly grown.
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*Boeing sold 220 jets or 209 after cancellations. *Airbus delivers 144 aircraft, Boeing 137 in Q1. PARIS/ NEW YORK, April 4- Airbus recaptured the aircraft industry's top spot in the first quarter as U.S. rival Boeing fell behind on orders and grappled with the grounding of its newest jet, the 787 Dreamliner, data from both companies showed on Thursday.
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SAO PAULO, April 4- She's one of the world's most popular presidents with an approval rating that is the envy of her peers in richer countries struggling with debt crises and political deadlock- 79 percent and rising. And yet, it's entirely possible that Dilma Rousseff could fail to win re-election as president of Brazil in October 2014.
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SAO PAULO, April 4- Automobile production in Brazil rose slightly in March but sales continued to lag compared with a year earlier, underscoring a fragile market that prompted the government to extend tax breaks on car and truck sales through the end of the year.
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*Sugar aided by potential for rising inflation in Far East. Cocoa prices were lower, weakened partly by origin selling while arabica coffee futures also fell. May raw sugar futures rose 0.13 cent or 0.7 percent to 17.63 cents a lb by 1403 GMT.
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*Brazil, Thai mills operating at near production cost. *Brazil cane area up, Russian beet acreage seen down. LONDON, April 4- Top sugar exporters Brazil and Thailand are raising production to cut costs in an effective price war, aggravating an already heavily oversupplied global market as values slide to the lowest levels in over 2-1/ 2 years.
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SAO PAULO, April 4- Automobile production in Brazil rose 39.2 percent and sales climbed 20.8 percent in March from February, the national automakers' association said on Thursday. Production in the month rose 3.4 percent from March 2012, according to data released by industry group Anfavea.
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LONDON, April 4- Former chief executive Frank Chapman and other top bosses at BG Group will get no performance bonus for 2012 because of the weakened position of the company, even though they met the criteria for one to be considered.
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*Sugar aided by potential for rising inflation in Far East. NEW YORK/ LONDON, April 4- Raw sugar futures on ICE turned higher on Thursday as hopes that monetary stimulus in Japan will spur more buying lifted prices that had dropped to nearly three-year lows on the expectation that more Indian supplies will reach the global market.
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OLMOS, Peru, April 4- Peru's Olmos Valley might be a desert now, with rare rains and rivers that trickle to life for just a few months a year, but a radical engineering solution for water scarcity could soon create an agricultural bonanza here.
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RIO DE JANEIRO, April 3- Workers ended a two-day strike at the OSX Brasil SA shipyard at Brazil's Port of Acu on Wednesday, after delaying construction and blockading an industrial complex owned by Brazilian billionaire Eike Batista. The workers said Acciona failed to pay wages and provided substandard conditions.