Tag: United States

• Thursday, June 9th 2016 - 08:50 UTC

  Yellen says Brexit 'repercussions' would be considered in Fed’s meeting next week

  

  United Stated Federal Reserve chair Janet Yellen said a UK vote to leave the European Union could have “significant economic repercussions”. In a speech this week, she said a Brexit was one factor that the central bank would consider when deciding whether to raise interest rates. The Fed next meets on 14-15 June.

• Wednesday, June 8th 2016 - 08:14 UTC

  Hillary claims Democratic presidential nomination and appeals to Sanders supporters

  

  Hillary Clinton claimed the United Stated Democratic presidential nomination on Tuesday night after decisive victories in the New Jersey and New Mexico primaries, and quickly appealed to supporters of Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont to unite with her against Donald J. Trump.

• Tuesday, June 7th 2016 - 23:57 UTC

  Rate hikes likely, but some reports remain 'disappointing', admits Fed chief Yellen

  

  Reserve Chair Janet Yellen said on Monday that interest rate hikes are likely on the way because “positive economic forces have outweighed the negative” for the United States now that risks from earlier this year have diminished.

• Tuesday, June 7th 2016 - 09:34 UTC

  Hillary Clinton captures Democrat presidential nomination, (with super-delegates), says AP survey

  

  Hillary Clinton became the first woman to capture the presidential nomination of one of the United States major political parties on Monday night, according to an Associated Press survey of Democratic super-delegates, securing enough of them to overcome a bruising challenge from Senator Bernie Sanders and turn to a brutal five-month campaign against Donald J. Trump.

• Thursday, June 2nd 2016 - 08:49 UTC

  US defense bill includes one billion dollars to fund a new polar icebreaker

  

  The U.S. Senate Appropriations Committee's Defense Appropriations Bill has included one billion dollars in funding to accelerate construction of a new polar icebreaker for the U.S. Coast Guard, reported Senator Thad Cochran (R-Miss.).

• Wednesday, June 1st 2016 - 08:40 UTC

  Ban Ki-moon emphasizes on the 'freely expressed will' for non-self-governing territories

  

  According to the UN charter the full measure of self-government of the peoples of the Non-Self-Governing Territories must be the result of the freely expressed will and desire of those peoples, said UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon in his message to the opening of the Pacific Regional Seminar on Decolonization, currently taking place in Managua, Nicaragua.

• Monday, May 30th 2016 - 09:16 UTC

  US top official expected in Uruguay and Brazil

  

  Acting Assistant Secretary of State for Western Hemisphere Affairs Mari Carmen Aponte will travel to Montevideo, Uruguay, May 31-June 2 to lead the United States delegation at the Open Government Partnership (OGP) Americas Regional Meeting.

• Monday, May 30th 2016 - 06:49 UTC

  Petrobras faces “tens of billions of dollars” in claims in US court; trial opens in September

  

  Petrobras will finally get its day in a U.S. court on Sept. 19 in a trial that pits 18 former executives and 13 investment banks, including J.P. Morgan Securities, against U.S. and U.K. investors. Claimants are seeking “tens of billions of dollars” in losses from the Brazilian oil and gas giant.

• Friday, May 27th 2016 - 07:08 UTC

  Trump is over the top: with 1237 delegates he becomes Republican candidate

  

  United States presidential candidate Donald Trump reached the number of delegates needed to clinch the Republican nomination for president on Thursday, completing an unlikely rise that has upended the political landscape and set the stage for a bitter fall campaign. It takes 1,237 delegates to win the Republican nomination and Trump has reached 1,238.

• Friday, May 20th 2016 - 10:17 UTC

  Trump ahead of Hillary in new polls, but both candidates have record negatives

  

  Donald Trump has pulled ahead of Hillary Clinton in two new polls, as Republicans begin to coalesce around him while Bernie Sanders keeps hammering fellow Democrat Clinton. The real-estate tycoon leads the former secretary of state, 42% to 37%, in a general-election presidential match-up, according to a Rasmussen poll released Thursday.