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Peru

700 Billion Reasons to Own Some Gold

Teaser: To Egyptian Pharaohs, it brought immortality in the afterlife. For Roman Caesars, it facilitated trade throughout the known world. To the Incas of Peru, gold was the sweat of the sun, while to their Spanish invaders it...

It's time for global investors to put Peru on their radar screens

Peru’s growth is more robust, inflation is lower, savings rates are stronger and internal consumption is growing faster than in other emerging markets Recent economic trends drive home that global investors would do well to...

Peru: Digital Communications Event Cancelled

Laura Vannessa from Lau's Blog is very embarrased that a local university has cancelled a Digital Communications event because Jose Luis Orihuela, one of the speakers, was organizing a Beers & Blogs in Lima.

President says Peru financial structure sound

Maybe sometimes it helps to be poor. Peru's President Alan Garcia on Thursday urged his country not to panic over the global financial crisis — in part because it's "a problem of the world's rich countries."

Tuberculosis running rampant in some Peruvian villages

Dr. Sanjay Gupta takes us into a small village near Lima, Peru hospital where tuberculosis is running rampant. Editor’s Note: Medical news is a popular but sensitive subject rooted in science. We receive many comments on this...

Senate approves deal to renew Andean benefits (Reuters)

By Doug Palmer 2 hours, 38 minutes ago WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Senate on Thursday approved a one-year renewal of longtime U.S. trade benefits for Colombia and Peru, but potentially only a six-month extension for Bolivia...

Protests and strike hit mining sector in Peru

Source: Reuters By Diego Ore LIMA, Oct 2 (Reuters) - Protests erupted in three mineral-rich regions in Peru on Thursday, with angry townspeople clashing with police and taking a local mayor hostage and workers at a ...

UPDATE - Dollar drags down copper, aluminium at 31-mth low (at Reuters)

Dollar rally forces copper to a fresh 19-month trough * Aluminium hits 31-month low on poor U.S. car data * Copper ignores strike at Peru's Cerro Verde mine (Updates prices, adds comments; rewrites) By Pratima Desai and Anna...

Investors Hit the Bottle -- for Profit

Parking Space Is Real-Estate Investment; Can Comic-Book Index Outpace the Market? Andy Pick, a 49-year-old stay-at-home father in Atlanta, recently bypassed the stock market for liquid assets -- $120,000 in champagnes. Between...

PERU: Mobilising to Hold President to His Promises

LIMA, Oct 2 (IPS) - Social movements, trade unions, peasant farmer and indigenous organisations are holding strikes and demonstrations to demand that Peruvian President Alan García fulfil the social commitments he has made, in...