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1 week ago | 
investmentmonitor.ai | Eugenia Perozo
The UK Government has taken control of a Chinese-owned steel plant in Scunthorpe, Lincolnshire, after it was put at risk of closure. Members of Parliament gathered for a rare Saturday meeting to pass an emergency law that allowed the government to take over operations and keep two blast furnaces operating. The plant is the last in the UK to produce virgin steel, which is important for major construction projects.
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2 weeks ago | 
investmentmonitor.ai | Eugenia Perozo
Earlier this week, the EU’s International Trade Committee adopted revised screening rules for foreign investments. The updated rules will establish mandatory screenings for transactions in sectors such as the media, critical raw materials and transport infrastructure to guard against security or public order risks. The new rules also give the Commission power to intervene in cases where member states are in disagreement over the risks posed by a certain investment.
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2 weeks ago | 
investmentmonitor.ai | Eugenia Perozo
A new investor survey places the US as the number one destination for foreign direct investment (FDI). The Kearny FDI Confidence Index was conducted in January 2025, before US President Donald Trump announced a wave of ‘reciprocal’ tariffs that are threatening to upend the global economic order.
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2 weeks ago | 
investmentmonitor.ai | Eugenia Perozo
MercadoLibre, an Argentinian e-commerce company headquartered in Uruguay and the most valuable company in Latin America, will increase its investments in Brazil by 48% in the local currency in 2025. The company said the 34bn reais ($5.8bn) investment will go towards expanding the logistics network, increasing technology for e-commerce and fintech, loyalty programmes, entertainment initiatives and more.
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2 weeks ago | 
airport-technology.com | Eugenia Perozo
Whether 2 April 2025 will go down in history books as “Liberation Day,” as US President Donald Trump called it, or as “incredibly stupid”, as Eurasia Group president Ian Bremmer described it, is yet to be decided. What we do know is that there is no place to hide from US tariffs anymore, not even on an island in Antarctica inhabited only by penguins. Firstly, there’s the 10% universal tariff on goods from all countries, which will go into effect on 5 April.
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2 weeks ago | 
investmentmonitor.ai | Eugenia Perozo
Social media and e-commerce platform TikTok, owned by Chinese company ByteDance, has been granted a 75-day extension to find a US buyer or leave the US market, where it claims to have 170 million users. While a deal was reportedly close to being approved last week, US President Donald Trump’s ‘reciprocal’ tariffs delayed the sale, which also has to be approved by China.
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2 weeks ago | 
offshore-technology.com | Eugenia Perozo
Whether 2 April 2025 will go down in history books as “Liberation Day,” as US President Donald Trump called it, or as “incredibly stupid”, as Eurasia Group president Ian Bremmer described it, is yet to be decided. What we do know is that there is no place to hide from US tariffs anymore, not even on an island in Antarctica inhabited only by penguins. Firstly, there’s the 10% universal tariff on goods from all countries, which will go into effect on 5 April.
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2 weeks ago | 
investmentmonitor.ai | Eugenia Perozo
Whether 2 April 2025 will go down in history books as “Liberation Day,” as US President Donald Trump called it, or as “incredibly stupid”, as Eurasia Group president Ian Bremmer described it, is yet to be decided. What we do know is that there is no place to hide from US tariffs anymore, not even on an island in Antarctica inhabited only by penguins. Firstly, there’s the 10% universal tariff on goods from all countries, which will go into effect on 5 April.
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2 weeks ago | 
investmentmonitor.ai | Eugenia Perozo
French President Emmanuel Macron had a clear message to European businesses following the announcement of US ‘reciprocal tariffs’: stop investing there. “It is important that future investments, the investments announced over the last few weeks, should be put on hold for some time until we have clarified things with the US,” the president said to business representatives of impacted sectors at the Elysée Palace on Thursday (4 April).
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3 weeks ago | 
investmentmonitor.ai | Eugenia Perozo
The Korea Trade-Investment Promotion Agency (KOTRA) has announced the launch of the K-Tech Pass, a programme to attract top foreign talent to high-tech industries such as AI and semiconductors in South Korea. KOTRA hosted a launch event at its headquarters in Seoul with more than 50 representatives from the Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy, the Ministry of Justice and industry associations, plus other business representatives.
