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Argentine President Cristina Fernandez 2011

Argentine President Cristina Fernandez 2011

Cristina Fernandez, President of South American nation Argentina looks poised to win her reelection bid in Argentina’s October 2011 election. With most of the votes counted and reported in the heated primary, President Cristina Fernandez is set to win the primary against her challengers by a large margin. Cristina Fernandez is set with over 50 percent [...]

Tata Motors Miss Estimates as Jaguar Sales Drop

Tata Motors Miss Estimates as Jaguar Sales Drop

Tata Motors released their first quarter results and the results were not quite what they were predicting. Analysts had forecast Tata Motors, the owner of the  Jaguar Land Rover to have higher than realized first quarter net income reports. This comes as the sale of passenger cars in India fell and the deliveries of the [...]

Brazil Arrests 33 Tourism Officials

Brazil Arrests 33 Tourism Officials

In Brazil word of a large scale arrest shook the foundation of an unlikely government department. Brazilian police arrested thirty three officials from the country’s tourism office. They are being charged with crimes of corruption dealing with a recent program meant to train others in the field of tourism.   Paulo de Tarso Teixeira, the [...]

Tata Sons Successor By December

Tata Sons Successor By December

RK Krishnakumar, one of five selected members to a special committee created to interview and select the successor to Ratan Tata of the Tata Sons Company, a  telecom to tea conglomerate, announced that a successor will be announced before the end of this year. The Tata Sons Holding Company has shareholdings across the many group companies [...]

Balanced Budget Amendment In Italy

Balanced Budget Amendment In Italy

Italy’s Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi and Finance Minister Giulio Tremonti met with each other today to discuss the severe nature of Italy’s troubled economy. In this round of emergency talks, the two ministers looked on ways to speed up the liberalization of the economy.   Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi had for months dismissed the diminishing [...]

Yeddyurappa Resigns

Yeddyurappa Resigns

After over three days of  tensions, Karnataka chief minister Yeddyurappa sent his letter of resignation to Bharatiya Janata Party President Gadkari. In his letter Yeddyurappa addressed his resignation but maintained his full support to the Bharatiya Janata Party. This comes as he was indicted on a mining issue in Lokayukta. President Gadkari accepted Yeddyurappa’s letter of resignation. [...]

Venezuela Holds OPEC’s Largest Oil Reserves

Venezuela Holds Largest Oil Reserves

Saudi Arabia has been passed up as OPEC’s largest oil reserves holder said OPEC in its Statistics Bulletin released annually. Moving to the top of the list is Venezuela, as OPEC’s reserves have increased from 12.1% in 2010 up to 1.19 trillion barrels.   OPEC’s reserves holdings increase grew from 211.2 billion in 2009 to [...]