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Dollar’s best week in six months may be its last

  Bloomberg The dollar’s biggest gain in six months may run out out fuel as reports from sectors of the U.S. economy keep pointing to sluggish growth. The Bloomberg Dollar Spot Index that tracks the currency versus 10 peers rallied this week from a one-year low, shrugging off a patchy jobs report. The employment data prompted Goldman Sachs Group Inc. ...

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Standard & Poor raises Argentina’s credit rating to B-

  Bloomberg Argentina’s credit rating was raised to B- from selective default by S&P Global Ratings, which cited the country’s payment on Thursday of $2.7 billion of past-due interest on bonds in default since July 2014. The outlook on the South American country’s rating is stable, S&PGR said in a statement. The ranking is five levels below investment grade and ...

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Monsanto Intacta soy patent may take months: Argentina

  Bloomberg Monsanto Co. may have to wait months to gain approval in Argentina for a patent on its latest genetically modified soybean technology, another setback for the world’s largest seed company in its years-long quest to collect royalty payments from the country’s farmers. Monsanto’s Intacta soybean seed still lacks full patent approval from the Argentine regulator, Argentina’s Science and ...

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