By Marco Aquino LIMA (Reuters) -Peru’s Congress on Thursday voted twice against formally debating the launch of a process to impeach under-fire President Dina Boluarte, who is facing a probe…
LIMA (Reuters) – Peru’s GDP saw positive growth in November after six months in the red, the government said on Monday, beating analyst forecasts and bringing some hope that the…
LIMA (Reuters) – Peru’s inflation rate could converge to the central bank’s target sooner than expected, the head of the bank said on Wednesday, arguing that the rate of rising…
By Marco Aquino LIMA (Reuters) – To his supporters, former Peruvian President Alberto Fujimori saved Peru from terrorism and economic collapse, while his critics see him as an authoritarian who…
By Marco Aquino LIMA (Reuters) – A dramatic and deadly attack on a gold mine in Peru on Saturday has thrown a spotlight on illegal miners and criminal gangs targeting…
(Reuters) – Peru’s central bank on Thursday cut its benchmark interest rate by 25 basis points to 7.5% after holding the rate steady for eight straight months, as the monetary…
LIMA (Reuters) – Peruvian police arrested an ex-prime minister on Tuesday for allegedly conspiring against the state and joining an attempted “coup” by ousted former President Pedro Castillo, in the…
LIMA (Reuters) – Peru’s gross domestic product (GDP) expanded 0.31% in April compared with the same month last year, the government’s INEI statistics agency said on Thursday, nevertheless landing below…
LIMA (Reuters) – Peru’s inflation rate based on the metropolitan region of the capital Lima fell to 0.32% in May, government data showed on Thursday, but the rate of creeping…
By Marco Aquino LIMA (Reuters) – In a country shaken by years of political volatility, Peru’s national currency has emerged as a mainstay of relative stability among Latin American foreign…
LIMA (Reuters) – Peru’s President Dina Boluarte on Sunday swore in new ministers of justice, education, work and external trade in a surprise move in the South American nation that…
(Reuters) – Peru’s gross domestic product (GDP) shrunk 0.63% in February compared with the same month last year, the government’s INEI statistics agency said on Saturday, beating expectations by analysts…
By Marco Aquino LIMA (Reuters) -Peru’s congress rejected a motion on Tuesday from leftist lawmakers to launch impeachment hearings against President Dina Boluarte on charges tied to the deaths of…
(Reuters) – Peru’s gross domestic product contracted 1.12% in January compared with the same month a year before, official data showed on Wednesday, marking the first contraction in 22 months…
LIMA (Reuters) – Peru’s economy slowed down for the second month in a row, missing forecasts for the last month of 2022, figures from the national statistics institute showed on…
LIMA (Reuters) – Inflation in Peru will likely end January at a rate between 8.8% and 8.9% on an annual basis, the country’s minister of economy said on Monday, as…
LIMA (Reuters) – Peru’s economy expanded 1.68% in November compared with the same month a year before, the national statistics institute (INEI) said on Sunday, marking a slight slowdown from…
LIMA (Reuters) – Peru’s Defense Minister Jorge Chavez on Thursday accused foreigners of stirring up protests with a view to encouraging separatism in the country’s south, as tensions simmer after…
LIMA (Reuters) – The Central Reserve Bank of Peru on Friday slightly reduced its economic growth projection for 2023 to 2.9% from 3.0%, according to a report published by the…
LIMA (Reuters) – Peru’s economy expanded 2.01% in October compared with the year before, the government’s INEI statistics agency said on Thursday, accelerating its pace of growth after a 1.66%…
(Reuters) – Global ratings agency S&P Global cut Peru’s outlook to negative from stable, citing risks to the sovereign’s credit worthiness from a political standstill and challenging relationship between the…
LIMA (Reuters) – Peru’s key economic and financial institutions remain resilient to political volatility, Moody’s analyst Jaime Reusche said Thursday after the country impeached and arrested one president and welcomed…
By Marco Aquino LIMA (Reuters) – Ousted Peruvian leader Pedro Castillo has been detained in a police prison in Lima where another former president, Alberto Fujimori, is also being held,…
By Marco Aquino and Marcelo Rochabrun TAPAIRIHUA, Peru (Reuters) – In the hills of Tapairihua in Peru’s Andes, Samuel Retamozo and other artisanal miners have found a rich seam of…
(Reuters) -New Zealand’s dairy exporter Fonterra Co-operative Group said on Friday that it was selling its dairy operations in Chile to Peruvian firm Gloria Foods in multiple transactions worth about…