IMPSA, la empresa de ingeniería estadounidense-argentina, lanzó un importante programa de rehabilitación y modernización de las centrales hidroeléctricas Macagua y...

Four days after Russia launched its all-out effort to subjugate Ukraine, the US government and other Western allies fired a broadside of financial sanctions aimed at punishing the Kremlin’s wallet for the assault. The Russian Central Bank was prominent. So was a multibillion-dollar sovereign wealth fund that the Kremlin calls the Russian Direct Investment Fund, or RDIF. The U.S. Treasury called it “a slush fund for President Vladimir Putin [that] is emblematic of Russia’s broader kleptocracy.” After months of dormancy,…

Japan’s government on Friday decided to tap $7 billion from its contingency reserves to keep subsidies for gasoline and other fuels, even as it plans to gradually scale back the support from December. The Japanese government decided today to allocate about $7 billion (1.1 trillion Japanese yen) from the reserve funds to continue capping retail gasoline prices amid soaring oil and fuel import costs, Japanese media reported. Introduced in March, soon after the war in the Middle East began, the subsidy program has kept the average national gasoline…