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Venezuela and Iran signed new agreements in several economic and social areas during the visit to Caracas by Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, reports South Sentinel (Jan. 11, 2012). Following private talks, Venezuelan President...

The spark spread represents the theoretical margin of electric power producers. Its understanding can reveal several speculative opportunities that traders can use to expand their market activity. There are several fundamental methods of...

Guatemalan exports grew in 2011 by 25%, the highest percentage in the last 30 years, reports Elperiodico.com.gt (Jan. 2, 2011). Due to the high world price of coffee, silver and gold, oil and...

Goat and sheep farmers in Jamaica and counterparts in Trinidad & Tobago are set to benefit from a recently launched four-year project aimed at improving the production, productivity and quality of meat, as...

Crowley Maritime Corp. on Dec. 2' said that its subsidiary, Jensen Maritime Consultants, recently started the design of two 92-foot, 50-ton-bollard-pull Azimuth Stern Drive (ASD) tugboats for Caribbean TugZ, an affiliate of SEACOR...

Florida Ice & Farm (Fifco) announced the purchase of the Musmanni Corp., which owns the bakery of the same name in Costa Rica, reports Nacion.com (Dec. 21, 2011). With the acquisition, Fifco acquires...

The director of the National Council of Export Free Zones (CNZFE), Luisa Fernandez, says the sector in 2011 grew by 17% to US$4.475 million, reports Listin Diario (Jan. 11, 2012). She said the...

Denis O'Brien, an Irish billionaire who runs the telecom Digicel, recently recently presided over the opening of the 50th school that his company has rebuilt since the quake struck in 2010, and then...

French cement company Incehsa-Lafarge has begun a modernization and expansion of its Honduras plant over the next three years, reports Elfinancierocr.com (Jan. 11, 2012). Juan Martinez, director general of the cement company, said...

The first two months of the year could see the beginning of construction work on a pork processing plant, reports Elsalvador.com (Dec. 21, 2011). The plant, which already has several environmental permits, will...

Panama's Maritime Authority is putting out to tender the development, management and operation of a shipyard on the Pacific coast at the Port of Balboa (estimated cost $19.8 million), it was reported Jan....

With the end of 2011, Puerto Rico should complete its sixth-consecutive year of negative growth with a smaller contraction or, in a best-case scenario, with no (zero) or flat growth, according to local...

Local paint company Lanco Corp. has five warehouses, four manufacturing plants throughout Central America and a fifth in the pipeline, and its products sold all over the Western Hemisphere, from Canada to Chile,...

Tokyo, Jan 31, 2012 - (JCN Newswire) - Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Environmental & Chemical Engineering Co., Ltd. (MHIEC), a wholly-owned subsidiary of Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd. (MHI), has established MHIEC Environment (Beijing) Co.,...

Tokyo, Jan 31, 2012 - (JCN Newswire) - Hitachi Ltd and Hitachi High-Technologies Corporation today announced they had received the IEEE Milestone for Hitachi's pioneering development of the world's "First Practical Field Emission...

Establishing manufacturing structure of four production centers worldwide and strengthening BCP Tokyo, Jan 31, 2012 - (JCN Newswire) - Tanaka Holdings Co., Ltd. (a company of Tanaka Precious Metals) today announced that Tanaka...

Profit Up in Technology Solutions Segment, Although Thai Floods Hurt Results in Ubiquitous Solutions and Device Solutions Segments Tokyo, Jan 31, 2012 - (JCN Newswire) - Fujitsu today reported a consolidated net loss...

Tokyo, Jan 31, 2012 - (JCN) - In line with its commitment to support the World Health Organization's lymphatic filariasis elimination program, Eisai Co., Ltd, as one of the 13 major research and...

Tokyo, Jan 31, 2012 - (JCN) - Nissan Motor Co. Ltd has unveiled the Nichioh Maru, an energy efficient coastal car carrier that features installations of solar power panels and is propelled by...