United States

• Tuesday, November 8th 2016 - 06:48 UTC

  BA Governor Vidal, World Bank agree to finance Salado River works

  

  María Eugenia Vidal, governor of the province of Buenos Aires, reached an agreement with the World Bank for a 380-million-dollars loan to finance infrastructure works that would be beneficial to more than sixty municipalities. Bidding to start in March.

• Saturday, November 5th 2016 - 10:17 UTC

  Ezeiza airport shortlisted for 'domestic' gateway into the U.S.

  

  Buenos Aires' Ezeiza International Airport was shortlisted by the Department of Homeland Security of the United States along with ten other terminals in the world to be of “assessed preference” in the preclearance program.

• Saturday, November 5th 2016 - 10:11 UTC

  OAS Electoral Observation Mission to the United States completes deployment

  

  The Electoral Observation Mission of the Organization of American States (EOM/OAS) to the United States has completed the deployment of its observers and experts ahead of the General Elections that will be held next Tuesday, November 8th. On November 9th, the day after the election, the Chief of the OAS Mission will present a preliminary report.

• Friday, November 4th 2016 - 11:53 UTC

  Clinton stays ahead in polls, but lead get narrower down by the minute with five days to go

  

  Hillary Clinton leads Donald Trump, 46%-42% natiowide, with data updated Thursday to include two new national surveys taken after Friday's revelation that the FBI would review new emails to assess The Decmocrate candidate's handling of classified material at the State Department.

• Friday, November 4th 2016 - 07:14 UTC

  Trump not such an unlikely winner has Mexico drafting alternate plans

  

  Central Bank governor and finance ministry are in the process of adjusting their economic policy should the Republican candidate be elected. Mexican Central Bank governor Agustín Carstens, notorious for having stated that a victory for Donald Trump would hit his country like a hurricane, admitted Thursday he is readying a contingency plan for an “adverse” election result in the United States' presidential elections.
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• Thursday, November 3rd 2016 - 10:20 UTC

  Big Danger at the Lower Bound

  

  By Kenneth Rogoff
  
  Markets nowadays are fixated on how high the US Federal Reserve will raise interest rates in the next 12 months. This is dangerously shortsighted: the real concern ought to be how far it could cut rates in the next deep recession. Given that the Fed may struggle just to get its base interest rate up to 2% over the coming year, there will be very little room to cut if a recession hits.

• Wednesday, November 2nd 2016 - 19:27 UTC

  As expected Fed leaves rates unchanged, but the real game begins in December

  

  The Federal Reserve, on Wednesday following a two-day meeting, and with two members dissenting, left interest rates unchanged but anticipated the FOMC “judges that the case for an increase in the federal funds rate has continued to strengthen, but decided, for the time being, to wait for some further evidence of continued progress toward its objectives”.

• Wednesday, November 2nd 2016 - 11:30 UTC

  Trump overtakes Clinton for first time since May in ABC poll

  

  The Republican candidate now has a one-point lead in election that is too close to call, according to major survey.Donald Trump has overtaken Hillary Clinton to take a single percentage point lead in a poll by ABC, the first time he has done so since May. Though the result remains within ABC’s margin of error, the broadcaster said the leaders changing places was a noteworthy moment with just a week to go until election day.

• Tuesday, November 1st 2016 - 09:48 UTC

  Norovirus outbreak in Massachusetts shellfish growing areas

  

  The norovirus which has caused havoc to the cruise industry had emerged in Massachusetts waters forcing the closure of shell fishing within Wellfleet Harbor. The ban imposed by the Massachusetts Division of Marine Fisheries (DMF) has been set since October 28, but does not include bay and sea scallop adductor muscles and carnivorous snails, including conchs and whelks.

• Sunday, October 30th 2016 - 22:44 UTC

  US economy expands at its fastest pace in two years in the third quarter

  

  The US economy grew at the fastest pace in two years in the third quarter, initial figures have indicated. The world's largest economy grew at an annual rate of 2.9% in the three months to September, the Commerce Department said. Analysts had predicted growth of just 2.5%.