Economy

Colombia’s stock index IGBX lost 0.4 percent Monday despite a 3.4 percent jump immediately after the market opened. The initial raise followed the European markets who showed positive numbers. Despite…

The Colombian benchmark stock index opened higher, boosted by world markets, as investors received this weekend’s news about a $586 billion China economic stimulus plan for its exporters. The Colombian…

Despite a global financial and economic crisis, Latin American largest corporations announced in Mexico they are willing to invest in Colombia, Caracol Radio reported Monday. Colombian President Álvaro Uribe is…

Colombian inflation will be around 4.5 percent in 2009, while the economy will grow around 3 percent next year, central bank chief Jose Dario Uribe said on Friday. “We are…

Colombia is resisting the global financial turmoil well and its growth should recover in 2010 after slowing though next year as trade partners face weaker expansion, the International Monetary Fund…

The free trade agreement between the United States and Colombia is not on the agenda for the so called “lame duck” session of the U.S. Senate and thus will have…

A broad U.S. business coalition urged President-elect Barack Obama on Thursday to drop his opposition to a free trade pact with Colombia and work with Congress to approve it and…

The Colombian government still hopes U.S. lawmakers will approve the U.S.-Colombia free-trade agreement signed in 2006 even though Barack Obama, a strong opponent of the deal, just won the U.S.…

Colombia and Uruguay the coming days will be negotiating a free trade pact between the two countries, Uruguayan weekly Búsqueda reported Thursday. The magazine quoted an official from the country’s…