http://NewsOnFeeds.com/section/Americas%20Business%20News/46/1 Americas Business News from NewsOnFeed.com en 60 http://NewsOnFeeds.com/images/small.nof.gif The Venezuelan government's United Socialist party took the first steps yesterday towards seeking a referendum to enable President Hugo Chávez's re-election when... Mon, 01 Dec 2008 20:00:00 -0600 http://NewsOnFeeds.com/article/8405502/Ch%C3%A1vez%20in%20poll%20reform%20push FT.com - World, Americas Brazil vowed yesterday to cut the amount of deforestation in the Amazon over the next decade to less than half the current rate. The pledge followed an announcement... Mon, 01 Dec 2008 20:00:00 -0600 http://NewsOnFeeds.com/article/8405504/Brazil%20pledges%20to%20slash%20Amazon%20deforestation FT.com - World, Americas Brazil vowed yesterday to cut the amount of deforestation in the Amazon over the next decade to less than half the current rate. The pledge followed an announcement... Mon, 01 Dec 2008 20:00:00 -0600 http://NewsOnFeeds.com/article/8405505/Brazil%20pledges%20to%20make%20big%20cut%20in%20Amazon%20deforestation FT.com - World, Americas Venezuela's ruling government's United Socialist party took the first steps yesterday towards seeking a referendum to enable President Hugo Chávez's re-election... Mon, 01 Dec 2008 20:00:00 -0600 http://NewsOnFeeds.com/article/8405506/Ch%C3%A1vez%20in%20poll%20reform%20push FT.com - World, Americas The commitment follows an announcement that 12,000 sq km of forest land has been destroyed in the 12 months to the end of July – a rise of nearly 4% over the previous year Mon, 01 Dec 2008 20:00:00 -0600 http://NewsOnFeeds.com/article/8408408/Brazil%20pledges%20to%20slash%20Amazon%20deforestation FT.com - World, Americas People's power normally elicits at least a frisson of sympathy. But the antics of the People's Alliance for Democracy - which neither represents the people nor seeks... Sun, 30 Nov 2008 20:00:00 -0600 http://NewsOnFeeds.com/article/8397981/Destructive%20PAD FT.com - World, Americas A glowing Raúl Castro, Cuban president, strolled arm in arm with Dmitry Medvedev, his Russian counterpart, through the restored colonial district of Havana late... Sun, 30 Nov 2008 20:00:00 -0600 http://NewsOnFeeds.com/article/8397985/Moscow%20seeks%20to%20mend%20Cuban%20ties FT.com - US Since the start of the year, the invincible aura surrounding the world's biggest emerging economies - Brazil, Russia, India and China - has evaporated as the combined... Sun, 30 Nov 2008 20:00:00 -0600 http://NewsOnFeeds.com/article/8397988/Different%20strokes%20for%20different%20folks%3F FT.com - World, Americas AWB, the Australian wheat exporter, is in merger talks with local rival ABB Grain that if successful would create the country's second-largest listed agricultural... Fri, 28 Nov 2008 20:00:00 -0600 http://NewsOnFeeds.com/article/8389325/AWB%20considers%20ABB%20merger FT.com - World, Americas An important agricultural area of Brazil could face months of difficulties exporting products after floods wrecked equipment at the country's secondbusiest container... Thu, 27 Nov 2008 20:00:00 -0600 http://NewsOnFeeds.com/article/8382736/Floods%20to%20hit%20Brazil%20exports FT.com - World, Americas The jump this year in agricultural commodities prices triggered a food crisis that led to riots from Haiti to Egypt to Bangladesh. For investors, the crisis was an... Thu, 27 Nov 2008 20:00:00 -0600 http://NewsOnFeeds.com/article/8382737/The%20Short%20View FT.com - World, Americas The wealthy may have cut back on luxury items since the global financial crisis erupted. But Carlos Slim, the Mexican billionaire, has been taking advantage of at... Thu, 27 Nov 2008 20:00:00 -0600 http://NewsOnFeeds.com/article/8382738/Slim%20spree FT.com - World, Americas The grey mass of the Peter the Great , brooding at the head of a Russian flotilla in the Venezuelan port of La Guaira, served this week as an uncomfortable... Thu, 27 Nov 2008 20:00:00 -0600 http://NewsOnFeeds.com/article/8382740/Bolivarian%20bravado FT.com - World, Americas There are few safe havens in the global financial crisis but with investor interest still alive, record exports and a healthy financial system, tiny Uruguay is confident it can weather the storm, even if another crisis erupts in neighbouring Argentina Thu, 27 Nov 2008 08:40:54 -0600 http://NewsOnFeeds.com/article/8380341/Uruguay%20confident%20of%20weathering%20financial%20crisis FT.com - Commodities News and Market Data Inbursa, the bank owned by Carlos Slim, the Mexican billionaire, has bought up to $150m in Citigroup shares over the past week as the US financial group's stock... Wed, 26 Nov 2008 20:00:00 -0600 http://NewsOnFeeds.com/article/8376666/Slim's%20bank%20buys%20up%20to%20$150m%20in%20Citi%20shares%20amid%20price%20fall FT.com - World, Americas