United States

• Thursday, May 1st 2014 - 06:58 UTC

  Fed optimistic about US economy; pares securities purchases by another 10bn dollars

  

  The Federal Reserve looked past a dismal reading on first quarter US growth and gave a mostly upbeat assessment of the economy's prospects as it announced another cut in its massive bond-buying stimulus. Latest information indicates that economic activity has picked up after having slowed sharply during the winter in part because of adverse weather conditions, the central bank said on Wednesday.

• Monday, April 21st 2014 - 07:06 UTC

  Argentine bonds' case reaches US Supreme Court; support from Obama administration

  

  The US government will stand before the Supreme Court on Monday in support of Argentina's position in its ongoing legal fight with bond investors over a ruling which forces banks in New York, with which Argentina does business, to disclose information about the country's non US assets, as investors seek repayment.

• Wednesday, April 16th 2014 - 04:39 UTC

  Vice-president Biden will visit Brazil and attend a US national team game

  

  United States Vice President Joe Biden is planning to be among the crowds at this summer's World Cup soccer tournament. The White House announced Monday that Biden would travel to Brazil for the event in June. He also plans to attend a U.S. national team game.

• Wednesday, April 16th 2014 - 04:11 UTC

  Lower budget deficits over the next decade forecasted in the US

  

  US budget deficits over the next decade will be 286 billion less than previously estimated, the Congressional Budget Office said on Tuesday, attributing much of the decline to lower estimates of subsidy costs under President Barack Obama's health insurance reform law.

• Tuesday, April 15th 2014 - 04:01 UTC

  White House confirms Uruguay's Mujica will meet President Obama on 12 May

  

  The White House confirmed on Monday that President Obama will host his Uruguayan peer Jose Mujica on May 12, highlighting the close partnership with Uruguay and strong leadership of Mujica's administration on human rights, social inclusion and global peace and security.

• Friday, April 11th 2014 - 04:38 UTC

  Hedge funds target laundered funds in Nevada by close associate of the Kirchner family

  

  The American Task Force Argentina (ATFA), an organization which unites several bond holders from the Argentine default of 2001, questioned on Thursday the “lack of transparency” within President Cristina Fernández administration, during a video conference with reporters.

• Thursday, April 10th 2014 - 06:17 UTC

  Argentine top minister in Washington attending the 'ideologically bias” IMF assembly

  

  In a strong reply to the IMF report on the Argentine economy forecasting 0.5% expansion in 2014, the administration of President Cristina Fernandez said the multilateral organization suffers of an 'ideological bias' and its recipes only prompted the 'worst social and productive crisis in the history of Argentina'.

• Saturday, April 5th 2014 - 03:34 UTC

  US economy adds 192.000 new jobs in March; unemployment steady at 6.7%

  

  The US added 192,000 new jobs in March, in line with expectations, as the unemployment rate held steady at 6.7%. Severe weather over the winter did not prevent the monthly average for new jobs from continuing a climb towards pre-economic crisis levels.

• Friday, April 4th 2014 - 07:41 UTC

  White House targets methane emissions

  

  By Nicholas Cunningham of Oilprice.com - On March 28, the White House released a multi-pronged strategy to reduce methane emissions from a variety of sources, a step the administration says is an outgrowth of the President's Climate Action Plan announced last year. Methane is a powerful greenhouse gas, about 20 times more potent than carbon dioxide.

• Friday, April 4th 2014 - 03:05 UTC

  US Falklands' policy 'disappointing' but, one of many issues of US/UK special relationship

  

  The United States failure to recognize the right of the Falkland Islands to national self-determination is “disappointing”, reads a British House of Commons inquiry into the health of the so-called special relationship between the UK and the US. The report was released a day after the 32nd anniversary of the Argentine invasion of the South Atlantic islands (2 April 1982) and highlights London's frustration on the issue.