Tag: America

• Monday, February 24th 2020 - 07:10 UTC

  Warren Buffett recommends 'shareholder-loyal pit bulls and not cocker spaniels' in corporate America boards

  

  Warren Buffett called on corporate America to make their boards of directors more accountable to shareholders and less beholden to chief executive officers, perhaps by reducing their pay and requiring that they buy more stock.

• Monday, May 13th 2019 - 09:36 UTC

  Venezuelan general calls on forces to rise against Maduro, controlled by the Cuban “communist dictatorship”

  

  A Venezuelan general called on the country's armed forces on Sunday to rise up against President Nicolas Maduro, who has relied on the backing of the military to hold on to power despite an economic collapse.

• Wednesday, March 13th 2019 - 19:02 UTC

  Trump suspends Boeing 737 MAX 8 and 9 flights in the US

  

  The president of the United States, Donald Trump, ordered on Wednesday that the Boeing 737 MAX 8 and 9 planes stop operating in the country for safety reasons of “maximum importance”.

• Friday, October 5th 2018 - 08:26 UTC

  Trump's strategy for midterm elections: China meddling in US politics, the villain

  

  Vice-president Mike Pence on Thursday accused China of military aggression, commercial theft and rising human rights violations as he cast the Asian power as a villain bent on interfering in upcoming US elections.

• Tuesday, September 4th 2018 - 08:41 UTC

  Brazil's Real and Argentina's Peso slumped on Monday

  

  The Brazilian Real slumped on Monday as mounting concerns over this year's presidential election added to global risk aversion, while the Argentine peso extended a recent sell-off that also spread into stock markets in Latin America.

• Friday, August 31st 2018 - 08:41 UTC

  Trump threatens to withdraw the US from the World Trade Organization

  

  President Donald Trump has threatened to withdraw the US from the World Trade Organization (WTO) if the body fails to change the way it treats America. “If they don't shape up, I would withdraw from the WTO,” Mr. Trump said in an interview with Bloomberg News.

• Tuesday, June 26th 2018 - 08:22 UTC

  Latam stocks and currencies hit by global trade disputes

  

  Latin American stocks and currencies mostly fell on Monday as the trade dispute between the United States and other leading economies worsened, but central bank intervention kept the Brazilian real steady.

• Saturday, June 16th 2018 - 11:22 UTC

  Denuclearization or mutual deterrence in the Korean peninsula?

  

  If the Singapore meeting between Donald Trump and Kim Jong Un had been a zero-sum game, then Trump definitely lost. But maybe it wasn't. Kim got a meeting with Trump on terms of strict equality right down to the number of flags on display, which is a huge boost for his regime's claim to legitimacy.