Mexico

Claudia Sheinbaum was sworn in as Mexico's very first woman president on Tuesday, taking the reins at a time the country is fighting with violence from arranged crime and a large deficit in Latin America's No. 2 economy. Sheinbaum, the 62yearold scientist and previous mayor of Mexico City, was inaugurated in a ceremony in Mexico's Congress for a. sixyear term lasting till 2030. Her supporters shouted President! President! and Long. live Mexico! after Sheinbaum took the oath of office in front. of legislators. Political watchers and experts forecast Sheinbaum will urgently. aim to calm investors following the passing of a...

When Wagner Dias and his other half Mariana needed a loan to grow their children's clothing organization, the Brazilian entrepreneurs turned to Argentina's MercadoLibre Inc, the online platform they use to offer their items. MercadoLibre, which is making a push into a progressively congested regional fintech and credit market, currently had the data it required to green-light the loan. The Amazon.com of Latin America has actually used developments like that to cement its status as the area's most important company with a market capitalization exceeding $100 billion. Because they had access to all my app history as a seller and...

2 employees died and another was hurt after a fire broke out over the weekend at the most significant domestic refinery owned and operated by Mexico's. state oil company Pemex, a company authorities said on Monday. The fire broke out on Saturday at the Salina Cruz refinery. in southern Oaxaca state, plant supervisor Arturo Recio informed. press reporters, explaining that a storm triggered the drains filled with. oily waste to overflow into the sidewalks inside the complex. A 21-year-old lady and 26-year-old guy working for Pemex. professionals died, and another man was hospitalized,. Recio stated. He said that work at...

Production at a brand-new refinery owned and operated by Mexico's staterun oil business Pemex will fulfill a fifth of the nation's motor fuel needs within two weeks, President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador said on Monday. Production from the Olmeca refinery, situated at the Gulf Coast port of Dos Bocas, has been delayed several times considering that its symbolic inauguration in 2022. The center, a signature facilities project of Lopez Obrador, has actually been pitched as vital to the outgoing president's drive to make Mexico self-sufficient in gas and diesel. The refinery's expense has more than doubled to nearly $17. billion....

Mexican state oil company Pemex said on Tuesday it accepted a 5% salary hike and a 2%. increase in benefits with the STPRM oil employees union, saying in. a declaration the boost will apply from August through. next July. Pemex and the STPRM reaffirm their commitment to labor. well-being for the advantage of the oil neighborhood and the. fortifying of the organization, Petroleos Mexicanos, as the. business is officially known, said in a statement. In a different declaration, STPRM stated the increase would. likewise use to pensions and that the agreement reflected STPRM's. determination to reach agreements that permit the...

BP said on Tuesday it has offered the goahead for the sixth run center, Kaskida, in the U.S. Gulf of Mexico, with oil production slated to start in 2029. The new center features a brand-new drifting production platform with the capacity to produce 80,000 barrels of petroleum per day from six wells in the very first phase, BP said. The London-listed business found the Kaskida field in 2006 and last year restored strategies to establish it. The business said it plans to take advantage of its existing platform and subsea equipment designs that can be reproduced in future jobs to...

Mexico's stateowned oil business Pemex swung to a 256 billion peso ($ 14 billion). secondquarter bottom line on Friday, red ink the energy giant. chalked up to lower sales, a greater expense of sales and large. currency exchange losses. The quarterly loss compared to a net revenue of more than. $ 25.4 billion in the same period of in 2015. Pemex stated the loss would have been even higher if not for a. lower tax expense and a slower rate of wear and tear of fixed. possessions, according to a filing with the Mexican stock market. Revenue for among the...

Mexico's inbound President Claudia Sheinbaum will likely face a new challenge fulfilling the imagine energy independence that led her predecessor to invest $17 billion on a new refinery: a shortfall in domestic unrefined supply. The nation is a major crude manufacturer however output from the nation's older oil fields, mostly in the Gulf of Mexico, has plunged to more than a four-decade low. Without considerable spending on exploration and production, Mexico might find itself importing crude to feed its broadened refinery capacity in the next decade, an as soon as unheard-of modification of direction for the key worldwide exporter. For...

U.S. energy infrastructure business New Fortress Energy stated on Tuesday it closed a. $ 700 million loan for its second liquefied gas. production unit at its Quick LNG project in Altamira, Mexico. The business said the second liquefaction unit will be. established in collaboration with Mexico's utility Comision Federal. de Electricidad utilizing an onshore terminal currently in place. The business anticipate to invest $1.3 billion in the Altamira. center, which will turn U.S. and Mexican gas into approximately 1.4 million. loads each year of LNG for export when completely functional. The FLNG project had its first output previously this month...

Mexican Presidentelect Claudia Sheinbaum's ruling coalition is close to protecting a. twothirds bulk in both chambers of Congress, which would. lead the way to passing controversial constitutional reforms on. its own. Preliminary results from Sunday's election show Sheinbaum's. leftist Morena celebration and its allies will have the supermajority. in the lower home, but likely came up short in the Senate when. new lawmakers are seated in September. Sheinbaum will take office one month later in October. Below are prospective reforms that have markets and financiers. concerned, and resulted in a sharp decline in Mexican possession costs on. Monday. DESPERATE EFFORT...

Mexican Presidentelect Claudia Sheinbaum's ruling coalition is close to protecting a. twothirds bulk in both chambers of Congress, which would. pave the way to passing questionable constitutional reforms on. its own. Preliminary arise from Sunday's election program Sheinbaum's. leftist Morena celebration and its allies will have the super-majority. in the lower house, but likely came up short in the Senate when. brand-new legislators are seated in September. Sheinbaum will take workplace one month later on in October. Below are possible reforms that have markets and investors. concerned, and resulted in a sharp decline in Mexican possession prices on. Monday. LAST-DITCH...

Mexican Presidentelect Claudia Sheinbaum's judgment Morena celebration and coalition partners are close to protecting a supermajority in both chambers of Congress, which would lead the way to passing controversial constitutional reforms. Below is a take a look at the possible relocations that have markets and investors worried, and caused a sharp decline in Mexican asset costs on Monday. DESPERATE EFFORT Sheinbaum's coach, outbound President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, proposed a series of constitutional reforms in February, a few of which critics argue would get rid of much-needed oversight bodies, wear down checks and balances and focus more power in the...

Canadian miner First Quantum Minerals expects upgraded drilling results for its Peru copper task La Granja in the 2nd half of next year, and expediency studies by 2028, project development supervisor Steven Lewis stated on Thursday. The drilling is advancing well, it's at 35%, and we expect to have the lead to the 2nd half of next year, Lewis stated on the sidelines of a mining market conference. About the feasibility studies slated for completion by 2028, he said: We're working to satisfy this due date. First Quantum last year bought a 55% stake in the job, which is co-owned...

A committee in Mexico's. lower home of Congress approved two constitutional reforms that. would prohibit openpit mining and fracking, along with restrict. using genetically customized corn. The propositions, handed down Wednesday, will be taken up for. discussion by the full lower home after lawmakers return to. session in September. The modifications would also avoid the exploitation of water in. areas with water scarcity, with the exception of extraction in. inhabited areas for domestic use, according to a statement. launched Wednesday night. The modifications are part of a bundle of constitutional reforms. provided in February by President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador,....

Ismael El Mayo Zambada, the infamous alleged cofounder of the Sinaloa Cartel, appeared in an El Paso, Texas courtroom in a wheelchair on Thursday after pleading innocent last week to drug trafficking charges following his dramatic arrest. Zambada wore a navy sweatshirt that read carpe diem ( take the day) above a picture of a soccer ball to his very first status conference before U.S. District Judge Kathleen Cardone. At the 10-minute hearing, Cardone informed lawyers she had designated the case as complex - which extends the timeline for trial - and set the next status conference for Sept. 9....

Peru's economic development this year must surpass the 3.1% rate formerly estimated, President Dina Boluarte said in a speech on Sunday, another sign of enhancement as the nation recuperates from an economic crisis last year. Peru's central bank in June projection gdp development at 3.1% for this year, after the economy contracted 0.6%. in 2023. This strong efficiency reflects the durability of the. Peruvian economy. We committed to recovering our growth capacity. and we are on that path, Boluarte said in a speech to Congress. For years among South America's leading performers, Peru's. economy struggled last year in the aftermath...

Geopolitical rivalries, including developing trade battles between the United States and China, now trump inflation as the biggest concern for sovereign wealth funds and reserve banks handling some $22 trillion in possessions, an Invesco survey released on Monday revealed. The ratcheting up of dispute - from Russia's war in Ukraine to trade restrictions - has loomed over worldwide investors for several years, but with the inflation tide ebbing, and as nearly half the world's population votes on brand-new leaders, the tensions are now centre phase. This naturally is the year of elections, stated Rod Ringrow, Invesco's head of main organizations,...

China's Ganfeng and 2 of its units aiming to establish a lithium job in Mexico registered an arbitration case against the Mexican federal government over the mining concession, according to the World Bank's. conflict settlement center. The post by the lending institution's International Centre for Settlement. of Financial Investment Disagreements (ICSID) on its website was dated Friday,. and lists the case, submitted by Ganfeng International Trading,. Bacanora Lithium and Sonora Lithium, as pending. Shanghai-based Ganfeng is a leading global battery maker and. lithium miner. The case centers on Mexico's most sophisticated lithium mining. job, located in northern Sonora state, and...

Chinese carmaker BYD Co. has delayed plans to produce lithium cathodes for. electrical vehicle (EV) batteries in Chile by 2025, the company's. Americas head told on Tuesday. Chile's financial advancement firm CORFO in 2015 stated. production at a new plant to be developed by BYD was anticipated to. begin around the end of 2025, representing a $290 million. investment in the world's second-largest lithium-producing. country. BYD Chief of Americas Stella Li stated she was not sure when the. business would resume its strategies, citing uncertainty and. complications around the task, which would make parts. needed for electrical vehicle (EV) batteries....

A labor panel under the trilateral trade agreement between the U.S., Mexico and Canada ruled in favor of Mexico, which argued the arrangement did not have the jurisdiction to review alleged labor rights infractions at a mine in the nation, Mexico said on Friday. The U.S. had actually requested a probe in 2015 into declared workers' rights abuses at a Grupo Mexico mine in the main state of Zacatecas. Mexico argued the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA) trade pact did not apply, as the problems at the mine had been happening because before the pact went into impact in 2020. This...

Grupo Mexico expects its Southern Copper mining arm to produce over 1 million metric tons of copper by 2027, the department's financing chief said on Friday, pointing to betterthanexpected production from its portfolio of projects. The business also edged up its forecasts for this year, anticipating output of 949,000 loads, stated Leonardo Contreras, the system's primary financial officer, in an earnings call. The executive approximated that output of the secret industrial metal from the division's tasks will then dip to 920,000 heaps over the next 2 years as the miner ramps up projects to reach production of 1.02 million loads...

Mexican cement maker Cemex reported a 13% boost in firstquarter internet revenue on Thursday, strengthened by lower taxes and less exposure to financial derivatives, although its operating profits decreased. The firm, among the world's biggest cement producers, posted a net profit of $254.4 million, beating analysts' estimate of $218.2 million according to LSEG data. Profits inched up 3% year-over-year to $4.14 billion, simply shy of experts' quote of $4.19 billion, regardless of volumes falling in all of its product sections. On a like-to-like basis, earnings was stable from the year-ago quarter, Cemex said. Cemex Asia is divesting its Philippine operations,...

Steelmaker Ternium on Wednesday published a. first-quarter net earnings that edged up 2%, moved by bigger. shipments of steel even as it forecasted that margins could. shrink in the coming months. Ternium, which produces flat steel products for. industrial use, published a net earnings of $491 million while its. net sales increased by about a third to reach $4.8 billion throughout the. quarter. The company's steel shipments during the. January-to-March period, meanwhile, leapt 27% year-on-year to. struck 3.9 million metric loads. Both metrics landed above projections of analysts polled. by LSEG, who had actually estimated profits of $325 million and...

Current actions taken by Mexico such as tariffs and traceability requirements executed on steel imports need to soothe concerns from the United States, Economy Minister Raquel Buenrostro stated on Tuesday. WHY IT'S IMPORTANT The Biden administration has actually been pressing Mexico to restrict China from selling its metal products to the U.S. through its southern next-door neighbor. The U.S. has said tariffs on steel from Mexico might be reinstated, with Mexico threatening to do the very same. CONTEXT China has been implicated of engaging in dumping, or the trade practice in which it unloads inventory in other countries far below...