Chile
Chile’s SQM To Open Plant In Brazil, Mulls Entering India
Dow Jones Sociedad Quimica y Minera de Chile SA (SQM, SQM-B.SN), one of the globe’s leading fertilizer and specialty chemical producers, will expand into Brazil and is evaluating setting up shop in India, the company’s chief executive was quoted as saying Friday by daily newspaper El Mercurio. SQM, which is the global leader in iodine [...]
If copper is the new gold, Chile is the Saudi Arabia of copper
Incidents of theft of copper cable in the UK are on the rise as the world prepares itself for a shortage of the very useful metal. The expansion of infrastructure in developing companies like China, India, Brazil and Russia means that, all in all, it’s just another BRIc in the wall. Copper (periodic ticker number [...]
Frontier Investing – Asia and Latin America
TWO OF AMIT WADHWANEY’S passions are international stocks and ethnic restaurants. That he is an avowed value investor is no surprise, given that Third Avenue Management, his employer, was founded in the mid-1980s by famed bargain-hunter Marty Whitman. Wadhwaney’s duties include running the Third Avenue International Fund (TAVIX). Barron’s recently caught up by Wadhwaney by [...]
Chile learns how trust its military, 20 years after Pinochet
Chile has made great strides since the end of the Pinochet dictatorship in 1990. Under Pinochet there was extreme political repression, including at least 3,000 people who were “disappeared” and murdered because of their political opposition to the regime. In the last 20 years Chile has enjoyed rapid improvements in its economy and society, but [...]
Chile’s Silicon Valley
BusinessWeek The information technology industry is constructing a new research and development hub for software: Santiago, Chile. The Latin American capital has the attributes that have made emerging markets attractive to outsourcers, such as cheap wages; dependable, state-of-the-art infrastructure; and government incentives. While Chile’s small labor force will hinder its rise, the country also boasts [...]
China, electric cars to drive copper prices
Reuters Asian urbanization coupled with the electrification of the auto industry should be a boon for copper prices and a huge benefit for copper mining countries such as top producer Chile, mining financier Robert Friedland said on Thursday. Speaking at the CRU/CESCO copper conference in the Chilean capital of Santiago, Friedland said massive Chinese demand [...]
Chile – A Latin American dynamo
Last week, I had a chance to spend a few days in Santiago Chile. I came away thinking that it will be the first country in LatAm to attain first world status. It already is well on its way there currently having highest GDP per capita in the region. Simple things – the taxi drivers [...]
Chilean President coming to India on March 16 to firm up ties
The Hindu : National Michelle Bachelet, the first woman President of Chile, will arrive here on Monday on a five-day visit. She is expected to be accompanied by a high-level delegation, including the Ministers of Agriculture and Women Empowerment and a business delegation. “India and Chile have enjoyed fruitful relations since the early days of [...]
India, Chile should bolster economic ties: CII
In my experience in the U.S. and India, I find Chilean embassy staff to be amazingly business-friendly with a facilitative, and not a bureaucratic, mindset. That bodes well to attain the goals outlined in this study. 3 years ago in Delhi, then Chilean Ambassador to India, Amb. Jorge Heine invited me to meet him, and [...]
Milking greener pastures – Kiwi dairy Investments in LatAm
The Amuls of the world should follow.Stuff.co.nz In barely three years, New Zealand Farming Systems Uruguay, Wrightson’s stockmarket-listed investment vehicle, has acquired 36,500 hectares of land and leases a further 3500ha. It has spent heavily on new pasture grasses, irrigation, roads, fencing, reticulated water supply to each paddock, milk sheds, staff accommodation, training and the [...]
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