United States

• Saturday, July 14th 2012 - 07:06 UTC

  Visa and Mastercard agree to largest settlement with retailers over card fees

  

  Credit card companies Visa and Mastercard and major US banks have agreed to a 7.25bn dollars settlement to retailers over card fees. The case, which has been going on for seven years, is over firms colluding to fix the fees that stores pay to process credit and debt card payments.

• Saturday, July 14th 2012 - 00:46 UTC

  Chavez becomes an issue of the US presidential campaign

  

  President Hugo Chavez denied on Friday that Venezuela was a threat to anyone, after US presidential hopeful Mitt Romney criticized Barack Obama for playing down the risk posed by the socialist leader.

• Saturday, July 14th 2012 - 00:26 UTC

  Brazil’s 2012/13 soybean crop in place to dispute the US supremacy

  

  Next season, 2012/13 Brazilian soybean growers could be in place to jump from the world's No. 2 producer and dispute the US first place. Brazil's 2012-13 soybean production is expected to rise 25% from this season’s drought-punished, to 83.1 million tons.

• Thursday, July 12th 2012 - 07:05 UTC

  Washington says Paraguay should not be suspended from OAS and calls for regional unity

  

  Paraguay should not be suspended from the Organization of American States, OAS, despite the removal of President Fernando Lugo, said on Wednesday Roberta Jacobson, Assistant Secretary of State for Western Hemisphere Affairs.

• Thursday, July 12th 2012 - 06:54 UTC

  US Fed divided as to when decide on a new round of asset purchases

  

  The US Federal Reserve officials are open to the possibility of a new round of asset purchases, though the US economy may need to get weaker before any further action is taken.

• Thursday, July 12th 2012 - 02:41 UTC

  Apartment in historic Watergate complex sells for 3.1million dollars

  

  An apartment in the Watergate complex, best known for the break-in that brought down President Richard Nixon in the 1970s, has sold for a record 3.1 million dollars, the Washington Post reported Monday.

• Tuesday, July 10th 2012 - 21:07 UTC

  Argentina reports the US and Japan before the WTO for restrictions on beef and lemons

  

  Argentina announced it has formally reported the United States and Japan before the World Trade Organization for the constant barriers set to Argentina’s meat and lemon exports to the afore mentioned countries.

• Monday, July 9th 2012 - 18:54 UTC

  Bad weather threatening crops in farming giants but it’s not like 2008

  

  A second global food price shock is gathering steam as bad weather decimates crops in the farming giants US, Brazil, Argentina, India, Russia, the EU and Australia that feed the world, according to market analysts.

• Friday, July 6th 2012 - 07:16 UTC

  US trade complaint at WTO against China for imposing duties on car exports

  

  United States launched a trade complaint Thursday against China at the World Trade Organization, accusing Beijing of unfairly imposing duties on more than 3 billion dollars in exports of US-manufactured automobiles.

• Friday, July 6th 2012 - 02:02 UTC

  Romney’s vice-presidential pick is crucial next decision of White House race

  

  By Andrew Hammond (*) - With polls indicating this year’s race for the White House will be highly competitive, the key decision Mitt Romney has to make before the Republican presidential convention in August is his choice of running mate.