United States

• Tuesday, March 29th 2011 - 00:43 UTC

  Jackpot with 319 million US dollars benefited seven New York state employees

  

  Despite reports that seven New York state government workers held the winning 319 million US dollars ticket in the Mega Millions lottery, as of Sunday, no one had come forward to claim the prize, a New York Lottery spokeswoman said Monday.

• Monday, March 28th 2011 - 01:06 UTC

  Hispanics become US second largest group with 50.5 million; up 43% since 2000

  

  The growing Hispanic population in the United States has reached a new milestone, topping 50 million, or 16.3%, officially solidifying its position as the country's second-largest group, U.S. Census Bureau officials said this week.

• Sunday, March 27th 2011 - 05:18 UTC

  Colombia and Peru closer to implementing the free trade agreement with the EU

  

  Negotiators from the European Union, Colombia and Peru have signed the final texts on an association agreement with a free trade chapter designed to increase commerce between the Andean countries and the European bloc, it was reported Friday.

• Sunday, March 27th 2011 - 04:37 UTC

  President Obama’s weak message to Latin America

  

  On Thursday March 24 The Washington Post published a rather critical editorial on President Barack Obama recent visit to Brazil, Chile and El Salvador.

• Saturday, March 26th 2011 - 10:38 UTC

  Billionaire Buffet advice: avoid long term fixed-income investment in US dollars

  

  Billionaire Warren Buffet who urged United States in 2009 to guard against inflation, said investors should avoid long-term fixed-income bets in US dollars because the currency’s purchasing power will decline.

• Saturday, March 26th 2011 - 10:36 UTC

  Second Fed governor in a week against extending US stimulative policies

  

  The Federal Reserve has less need to support an improving US economy beyond the 600 billion dollars Treasury purchase plan already in place, and any changes to the central bank’s stimulative policies should be considered some time after the program ends, said Charles Evans, , president of the Fed’s regional bank in Chicago.

• Saturday, March 26th 2011 - 08:53 UTC

  WTO rules US is illegally taxing imported Brazilian frozen orange juice

  

  The World Trade Organization ruled Friday that the United States is illegally taxing about 2 billion US dollars a year of imported Brazilian frozen orange juice.

• Saturday, March 26th 2011 - 08:06 UTC

  Chile further opens its market to US beef and beef products

  

  United States Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack and US Trade Representative Ron Kirk announced this week that US producers are now eligible to ship a larger array of US beef and beef products to Chile.

• Friday, March 25th 2011 - 01:06 UTC

  IMF mission travels to Argentina in April to help design a new national CPI

  

  The International Monetary Fund said Thursday it will send a team to Argentina again next month to continue work on revamping the government's discredited inflation measure, and will provide specific recommendations.

• Friday, March 25th 2011 - 01:00 UTC

  Obama to CFK: “can we have our (US Air Force seized) equipment back”

  

  US President Barack Obama expressed concern about the recent incident in which Argentina seized part of the cargo of a US military plane that was carrying supplies for a joint military exercise, according to US newspaper The Miami Herald’s Argentine columnist Andrés Oppenheimer.