LAS VEGAS, NV--(Marketwire - August 7, 2008) - Franklin Mining, Inc. (PINKSHEETS: FMNJ) (FRANKFURT: FMJ) Chairman and President William A. Petty is pleased to announce that during his latest visit to Buenos Aires, a Letter of...
Thursday August 7, 5:43 pm ET BUENOS AIRES, Argentina, Aug. 7 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Banco Macro S.A. (NYSE: BMA; Buenos Aires: BMA) ("Banco Macro" or "BMA" or the "Bank") announced today its results for the second quarter...
Nigeria held the gold-medal favorite Netherlands to a 0-0 draw on Wednesday, competing evenly with the reigning two-time European under-21 champion in their Olympic opener. Bolstered by Liverpool forward Ryan Babel and veteran...
While our delicate/oppressive first-world sensibilities prevent us from recommending any, ahem, other-world countries in which to spend your hard-earned vacation dollars. (PS, Monaco was dreadful last summer. Thumbs down, ugly...
Some people drink only reds. Other people will only drink white. I can honestly say that I used to be that way. Since becoming a wine editor, I have tried to get out of the red rut and broaden my wine horizons and try other...
YARMOUTH PORT, Mass., Aug. 7 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- More than 1000 juvenile Magellanic penguins have washed-up either dead or dying along the Brazilian coast and as far north as Natal in Rio Grande do Norte, 3000 km north...
ECHOES....Just because his father was a famous Nazi war criminal doesn't mean that Albert Speer Jr. shouldn't be able to find work. Still, given that the Olympic Games are nothing if not a gigantic quadrennial symbol of...
BUENOS AIRES, Aug 7 (Reuters) - Argentine stocks sank on Thursday, pressured by losses in international markets and a slide in sovereign bond prices amid growing concerns over the country's financing ability next year, traders...
SANTIAGO, Aug 7 (Reuters) - Chilean diversified retailer Cencosud said on Thursday its first-half net profit fell 49 percent compared with the same period last year on non-operating items, but that operating profit rose nearly...
BUENOS AIRES, Aug 7 (Reuters) - Banco Galicia posted a second-quarter net profit of 38.1 million pesos ($12.5 million), up from 7.7 million pesos a year ago, the company said on Thursday in a statement to the Buenos Aires Stock...