United States

• Friday, September 20th 2013 - 08:24 UTC

  US corn exporters concerned with Mercosur competition in Venezuela

  

  United States corn exporters are concerned with the fact that Venezuela, one of their prime markets, is now a full member of Mercosur, which includes Brazil and Argentina two major exporting countries.

• Friday, September 20th 2013 - 07:58 UTC

  IMF sides with Obama calls on Republicans to bury political differences

  

  The International Monetary Fund urged US policymakers to support major reforms at the global lender and bury political differences over the budget to ease one source of risk to the economy and markets.

• Wednesday, September 18th 2013 - 20:33 UTC

  Fed decides to keep stimulus: fears of economy sluggishness and still slow labour market

  

  In a surprise move after a two-day meeting the US Federal Reserve said on Wednesday that it would continue buying bonds at a rate of 85 billion dollars monthly and expressed concern that a sharp rise in borrowing costs in recent months could weigh on the economy.

• Wednesday, September 18th 2013 - 00:49 UTC

  Poverty rate in the US steady at 15%, which represents 46.5 million people

  

  The U.S. Census Bureau reported Tuesday that median household income in the United States in 2012 was 51,017 dollars and the official poverty rate was 15%, which is 2.5 percentage points higher than in 2007. Neither figure represents a statistically significant change from 2011.

• Wednesday, September 18th 2013 - 00:38 UTC

  Brazilean hackers miss their target and attacks NASA instead of NSA

  

  Hackers have hit back in retaliation for US cyber-spying on Brazil but mistook the US space agency NASA for the National Security Agency (NSA), a news website reported here Tuesday.

• Wednesday, September 18th 2013 - 00:27 UTC

  Rousseff postpones state visit to Washington over US cyber-spying allegations

  

  Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff on Tuesday postponed a state visit to Washington over allegations of US cyber-spying on her country. She announced the decision after discussing the spying row with US President Barack Obama Monday in a telephone call.

• Tuesday, September 17th 2013 - 06:50 UTC

  Obama sets the field for the coming clash with Republicans on the US debt ceiling

  

  US President Barack Obama warned Republicans in Congress on Monday that he will not negotiate over an extension of the US debt ceiling as part of a budget battle that will soon dominate Washington, with a deadline fast approaching.

• Sunday, September 15th 2013 - 20:18 UTC

  Summers pulls out of the race to succeed Bernanke at the Federal Reserve

  

  Lawrence “Larry” Summers, the former Treasury Secretary who served Presidents Clinton and Obama, called President Barack Obama on Sunday to say he is pulling out of the race to succeed Ben Bernanke as chairman of the Federal Reserve.

• Sunday, September 15th 2013 - 18:10 UTC

  China in ‘crucial’ restructuring stage, ‘much needed to sustain economic growth’

  

  China's economy is going through a “crucial” stage of restructuring, says the country's Premier, Li Keqiang. Speaking at the World Economic Forum in the Chinese port city of Dalian, Mr Li pledged to improve relations with foreign firms.

• Sunday, September 15th 2013 - 18:01 UTC

  Twitter has decided to go public; private investors estimates: over 10bn dollars

  

  Twitter has decided to go public. The company aptly announced on its short messaging service Friday afternoon that it has filed documents for an initial public offering of stock. San Francisco based Twitter Inc. posted on its official Twitter account that it has “confidentially submitted an S-1 to the SEC for a planned IPO.”