Tag: United States

• Thursday, February 15th 2018 - 01:14 UTC

  United States Travel Advisory for Uruguay

  

  The United States Travel Advisory for Uruguay offered a not very encouraging description of the country for foreign visitors but anyhow is well distanced from most of the rest of Latin American, and neighbors.

• Wednesday, February 14th 2018 - 09:58 UTC

  British Judge refuses to halt legal proceedings against Assange

  

  A British judge refused on Tuesday to halt legal proceedings against WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange for jumping bail and fleeing to the Ecuadorean embassy in London in June 2012. The ruling leaves Assange, 46, in a legal and diplomatic impasse, with no way out of the embassy where he has lived for almost six years, unless he decides to face the prospect of arrest by British police.

• Wednesday, February 14th 2018 - 09:36 UTC

  Five ex PDVSA officials on trial in Houston for US$ 1 billion graft probe

  

  U.S. prosecutors announced charges against five former Venezuelan officials accused of soliciting bribes in exchange for helping vendors win favorable treatment from state oil company PDVSA, the latest case to stem from a US$1 billion graft probe.

• Friday, February 9th 2018 - 20:26 UTC

  Fed member forecasts three interest rate hikes this year

  

  The U.S. Federal Reserve is likely to continue removing policy accommodation gradually and could hike rates three times this year, Dallas Fed President Robert S. Kaplan told a business conference in Frankfurt on Thursday.

• Friday, February 9th 2018 - 10:12 UTC

  Colombia and Brazil tighten controls along Venezuelan border: thousands pouring in

  

  Colombia and Brazil tightened border controls with Venezuela on Thursday as both nations grapple with a mounting influx of hundreds of thousands of desperate migrants fleeing a worsening economic crisis In a visit to the border region, Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos said he would impose stricter migratory controls, suspend new daily entry cards for Venezuelans and deploy 3,000 new security personnel along the frontier, including 2,120 more soldiers.

• Friday, February 9th 2018 - 09:56 UTC

  As Dow Jones plunges 10% points, fears of a bear market and ripples effects on the economy

  

  The United States Dow Jones industrial average nosedived more than 1,000 points on Thursday, registering another eye-popping loss for the closely-followed index, as wild trading and fears of rising interest rates around the world took hold of traders. The Dow as well as the S&P 500, a broader stock index, are now down more than 10% from their all-time highs, passing an important psychological barrier known as a “correction” for the first time in two years.

• Thursday, February 8th 2018 - 09:26 UTC

  China confirms support for Venezuela and lashes out at “irresponsible” US

  

  China’s support for Venezuela has benefited ordinary people and been broadly welcomed, the foreign ministry said after the U.S. Treasury accused China of aiding Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro’s government with murky oil-for-loan investments.

• Tuesday, February 6th 2018 - 08:26 UTC

  Tillerson praises Macri's leadership in the region in favor of democracy

  

  President Mauricio Macri received US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson on Monday at the Olivos official residence. During the forty minutes meeting the main issues of the Argentina/US bilateral agenda were addressed, according to a release from the Argentine Executive office.

• Tuesday, February 6th 2018 - 07:51 UTC

  US stocks Monday plunge erasing 2018 gains; economy fundamentals are strong, says White House

  

  United States stocks plunged in highly volatile trading on Monday, with both the S&P 500 and Dow Industrials indices slumping more than 4%, as the Dow notched its biggest intraday decline in history with a nearly 1,600-point drop and Wall Street erased its gains for the year.

• Saturday, February 3rd 2018 - 10:58 UTC

  US payrolls expanded by 200.000 in January, and wages started to creep up

  

  The United States labor market barreled forward in January, as employers added more jobs than expected and wage growth was its strongest in more than eight years. Payrolls in the United States expanded by 200,000 last month, driven by hiring in construction, food services and health care, the US Labor Department said.