CARACAS, Wednesday July 01, 2009 | Update
Economy
State-run oil company Petróleos de Venezuela (Pdvsa) announced on Wednesday that the USD 3 billion bond issue dubbed "Petrobono 2011" will be registered in international markets, a move expected by investors willing to buy the instrument.
"Consequently, the oil company will give notice to the financial entities asking the required information for the respective registry in Euroclear and/or Clearstream," said the Venezuela oil-run company in an addendum to the notification issued last week to announce the operation, Reuters reported.
04:17 PM. Western Hemisphere. "Damned empire; I curse you one thousand times; some day you will be finished off and wrecked. I curse you one thousand times, empire." This is the least that President Hugo Chávez has uttered to refer to the US government. In urging the Bolivarian Armed Forces to prepare for war, he said that a US raid on Venezuela through Colombia would trigger and spread over the region "the 100-year war."