Tag: United States

• Monday, May 9th 2011 - 00:53 UTC

  Two-day strategic and economic dialogue between US and China

  

  Top US and Chinese officials will be meeting for two days in Washington, starting this Monday. The heads of 16 US government agencies and representatives from 20 Chinese government departments will discuss the most difficult issues in a complex, interdependent relationship.

• Friday, May 6th 2011 - 00:03 UTC

  Commodity prices fall for the fourth day running; oil below 100 USD per barrel

  

  Commodity prices fell on Thursday for a fourth day, following weak economic news from Europe and the US. Oil prices were down 10% at one stage, with US light, sweet crude ending the day below 100 US dollars a barrel.

• Thursday, April 28th 2011 - 06:27 UTC

  Record Latino turnout in US 2010 mid term election, but well below potential

  

  More than 6.6 million Latinos voted in the legislative elections last November, a record Hispanic turnout in a non-presidential election year, according to a new study.

• Thursday, April 28th 2011 - 01:50 UTC

  Fed in no rush to scale down liquidity support; inflation trends ‘subdued’

  

  The Federal Reserve said on Wednesday it will maintain the current rates and is in no rush to scale back its extensive support for the US economy while estimating that the increase in commodity prices (and inflation) is transitory.

• Tuesday, April 26th 2011 - 16:50 UTC

  Human rights situation in the US according to China and reported by Fidel

  

  The Cuban revolution leader Fidel Castro in his latest ‘Reflections’ column “The brutal and turbulent North” writes about China’s report on human rights in the United States, which is basically a counter report on Washington’s annual document on the human rights situation in each of the world’s countries.

• Thursday, April 21st 2011 - 06:57 UTC

  IMF says the US lacks a credible plan to cut its deficit in the mid term

  

  The United States lacks a credible plan to cut its deficit over the medium term, the International Monetary Fund's chief economist Olivier Blanchard told French daily Le Monde in an interview published Wednesday.

• Tuesday, April 19th 2011 - 14:00 UTC

  Geithner warns US budget trimming battle in Congress has a deadline

  

  United States Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner said he was confident Congress would raise the country’s debt limit and that it may need to do so before a deal is reached to rein in future budget deficits.

• Tuesday, April 19th 2011 - 01:30 UTC

  US concern over growing Chile-China links, revealed by Wikileaks

  

  In 2005, with Chile negotiating a Free Trade Agreement with China, the United States became increasingly worried over China’s influence in the area, according to a confidential cable released last week by Wikileaks.

• Thursday, April 14th 2011 - 23:39 UTC

  Obama insists on reforming tax-code and making the rich pay more

  

  US President Barack Obama said the United States must use the tax code to help meet its targets for reducing the deficit and said that the wealthiest Americans must help achieve that goal.

• Thursday, April 14th 2011 - 05:32 UTC

  UN peacekeeping operations to suffer most from US funding cuts

  

  United States lawmakers are poised to cut spending on the United Nations by hundreds of millions of dollars, less than a week after UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon came to Congress to ask for continued strong support.