MEXICO CITY, Dec 17- Currency market intervention has cost South America's central banks more than $13 billion in the last 2-1/ 2 years but they are likely to maintain their defenses against hot money inflows if a fresh rush of cheap money sparks another round of currency wars.
LIMA, Dec 13- Peru's Congress unanimously approved a free-trade pact with the European Union late on Wednesday, meaning the Andean country now has trade agreements with every major economy from China to Japan and the United States.
*HSBC CEO apologizes, admits to breakdown of controls. *$881 mln in drug traffic proceeds laundered through HSBC.
BRUSSELS, Dec 11- EU lawmakers approved free-trade accords with Colombia, Peru and six Central American nations on Tuesday, giving them permanent access to the EU's 500 million consumers and offering the EU's stagnant economy new markets for its cars and luxury goods.
BRUSSELS, Dec 11- EU lawmakers approved free-trade accords with Colombia, Peru and six Central American nations on Tuesday, giving them permanent access to the EU's 500 million consumers and offering the EU's stagnant economy new markets for its cars and luxury goods.
Dec 7- Canada approved state-owned CNOOC Ltd's $15.1 billion bid for Nexen Inc on Friday, allowing China's biggest takeover of a foreign company to go ahead.
Dec 7- Bank of Nova Scotia's quarterly profit rose 31 percent, just beating estimates, as wholesale banking income surged, while international banking was boosted by an acquisition. The bank, known as Scotiabank, said on Friday it earned C $1.52 billion or C $1.18 a share, in the fiscal fourth quarter ended Oct. 31.
*Ban Ki- moon urges nations to cast off apathy, agree a deal. *Says wants Kyoto to stay platform to fight global warming. He said signs of change were apparent everywhere and "from the United States to India, from Ukraine to Brazil, drought decimated essential global crops".
Trade Representative Ron Kirk on Friday urged Russia to keep its market open to U.S. meat products and expressed hope the U.S. Senate would soon pass a bill upgrading trade relations between the two countries, his office said.
BOGOTA, Nov 29- Colombia will not apply a U.N. court ruling that shifts some of its resource-rich waters to Nicaragua until the Andean nation is sure that "the rights of Colombians are well defended," President Juan Manuel Santos said on Thursday.
BOGOTA, Nov 28- Colombia is launching insurance to protect coffee plantations hit by climate change, which has damaged output in the world's top producer of high quality Arabica beans in recent years, officials said on Wednesday.
WASHINGTON- U.S. employers stepped up hiring in October and a small increase in the jobless rate was due to more workers restarting their job hunts, a hopeful sign for a lackluster economy that has been a drag on President Barack Obama's re-election bid ( USA- ECONOMY/JOBS, moved, 900 words).
BOGOTA, Nov 2- Colombia's markets regulator said on Friday it was taking administrative control of the country's biggest stock brokerage when it failed to make a bank payment, while policymakers reassured investors their money was safe.
WASHINGTON, Nov 2- The contentious U.S.- China trade relationship has been a major issue in the U.S. race for the White House, with President Barack Obama defending his record and Republican challenger Mitt Romney promising tougher tactics if elected.
BOGOTA, Nov 2- Colombia's financial markets regulator, citing a liquidity problem, said on Friday that it was taking administrative control of the country's biggest stock brokerage, Interbolsa.
BOGOTA, Nov 2- Colombia's stock exchange suspended trading of Grupo Interbolsa's shares for five working days after the country's regulator took over the group's stock brokerage arm, traders said citing a statement from the bourse.
BOGOTA, Nov 2- Colombia's stock exchange suspended trading of Grupo Interbolsa's shares for five working days after the country's regulator took over the group's stock brokerage arm, traders said citing a statement from the bourse.
BOGOTA, Nov 2- Colombia's regulator said on Friday that it was taking administrative control of the country's biggest stock brokerage, Interbolsa, over a liquidity problem. Colombia's stock market opens at 0830 local time.
BOGOTA, Nov 2- Colombia's regulator said on Friday that it was taking administrative control over the country's biggest stock brokerage, Interbolsa, over a liquidity problem.