Economy

The Colombian economy will grow 2.5 percent in 2009, despite a global financial crisis that has pushed the United States and Europe into a recession, says Luis Alberto Moreno, President…

Colombia’s peso gained the most in almost six weeks after the U.S. government said it will guarantee $306 billion of troubled Citigroup Inc. assets.  “The market had been hanging on…

Coffee-growing nations should buy Starbucks and create their own distribution chain as the U.S. company grapples with slowing sales, Colombia’s coffee federation chief said in an interview published on Sunday.…

Japanese Prime Minister Taro Aso and Colombian President Alvaro Uribe agreed Saturday to launch talks on a treaty to increase protection of their bilateral investments, a Japanese official said. The…

Colombia’s government, unable to attain a free-trade agreement with the U.S., signed a bilateral investment treaty with China, granting most favored nation status to each other’s companies.  Colombian President Alvaro…

The leaders of Canada and Colombia signed a new free trade agreement here Friday that opens new markets for Canadian beef, pork, potatoes and other products in the South American…

Colombia’s peso bonds dropped after the central bank announced a 2009 inflation target that’s above this year’s goal.  Policy makers said they’ll target inflation next year between 4.5 percent and…

Colombia’s central bank said on Friday it kept its key overnight interest rate unchanged at 10 percent, a decision widely expected by the market, and set next year’s inflation target…

Cambridge Mineral Resources Plc said on Thursday it started production at its Quintana gold mine in Colombia on Nov. 9 and poured the first gold on Nov. 19, and its…