Tag: us election

• Friday, October 30th 2020 - 08:34 UTC

  US rejects Nigerian candidate as next WTO director-general, further paralyzing the global trade watchdog

  

  The World Trade Organization's (WTO) bid to select a new leader was plunged into uncertainty this Wednesday after the United States rejected the Nigerian woman proposed as the global trade watchdog's next director-general.

• Thursday, October 1st 2020 - 09:01 UTC

  Brazil's IPOs on the rocks: concern with fiscal discipline, US election and second Covid-19 wave

  

  What was shaping up as Brazil’s best year for initial public offerings in more than a decade is now on the rocks, as many companies shelve their plans amid concerns on the country’s fiscal discipline and a surfeit of new equity supply.

• Monday, December 23rd 2019 - 08:50 UTC

  Bloomberg opens campaign offices in three crucial swing states

  

  Michael Bloomberg, the billionaire media mogul who is seeking the Democratic nomination for US president, on Saturday opened campaign offices in Pennsylvania, Michigan and Wisconsin, three battleground states crucial in next's year election.

• Tuesday, June 25th 2019 - 09:21 UTC

  In an open letter, US super rich want to pay higher taxes

  

  Some of America's richest people are urging US presidential candidates to back a wealth tax on the super-rich to improve inequality and climate change. “America has a moral, ethical and economic responsibility to tax our wealth more,” they said in a letter.

• Thursday, November 1st 2018 - 08:46 UTC

  Trump makes immigration and birthrights leading issue of midterm election next week

  

  President Donald Trump is intensifying his hard line immigration rhetoric heading into the midterm elections, 6 November, declaring that he wants to order an end to the constitutional right to citizenship for babies of non-citizens and unauthorized immigrants born on US soil.