United States

• Wednesday, March 10th 2010 - 06:38 UTC

  US and Brazil not interested in trade war and “ready to negotiate”

  

  Visiting US Commerce Secretary Gary Locke said Tuesday that Washington was seeking talks with Brazil before it imposes retaliatory trade tariffs for US cotton subsidies the WTO ruled as discriminatory.

• Tuesday, March 9th 2010 - 18:43 UTC

  US advertising on digital media higher than on print in 2010

  

  United States advertisers are spending more this year on digital media than on print according to the latest study by Outsell. Long predicted, the Madison Avenue milestone has finally arrived thanks to a 9.6% boom in digital advertising in 2010.

• Tuesday, March 9th 2010 - 07:32 UTC

  Brazil/US WTO cotton retaliatory dispute takes off

  

  Brazil announced Monday it would levy a total of 591 million US dollars in retaliatory tariffs on US goods under a ruling against US cotton subsidies granted by a World Trade Organization last year. However Brazil also sent a conciliatory message.

• Monday, March 8th 2010 - 07:25 UTC

  Encouraging signals from US job market even when unemployment is 9.7%

  

  Encouraging news from the United States labour market: employers shed fewer jobs than expected in February, cutting 36,000 jobs. This was better than the 50,000 analysts had been expecting.

• Thursday, March 4th 2010 - 21:24 UTC

  US and Brazil agree Venezuela “should be looking more to the south”

  

  The United States and Brazil agreed that Venezuela should be “looking more to the south”, to “successful models of country”, according to US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and that is why “we have invited Venezuela to join Mercosur”, pointed out Brazilian Foreign Secretary Celso Amorim.

• Thursday, March 4th 2010 - 04:21 UTC

  Brazil tells Washington “not to push Iran into a corner”

  

  Brazil and the US could not agree Wednesday over how to rein in Tehran's suspect nuclear ambitions and Brazilian President Lula da Silva warned the world not to “push Iran into a corner.”

• Wednesday, March 3rd 2010 - 07:14 UTC

  US pledges long term relief for earthquake ravaged Chile

  

  Secretary of State Hillary Clinton arrived in Brasilia Tuesday night for meetings with Brazilian leaders after a stop in Chile where she pledged long-term US relief help for the earthquake-ravaged country. Chilean officials say damage estimates range in the billions of dollars.

• Wednesday, March 3rd 2010 - 07:03 UTC

  Hillary meets President Bachelet pledges US support for quake-stricken Chile

  

  Secretary of State Hillary Clinton pledged U.S. support Tuesday to earthquake-stricken Chile during the third stop on her six-nation tour of Latin America. Clinton told reporters in Santiago the US stands ready to help Chile in any way the government needs.

• Tuesday, March 2nd 2010 - 05:11 UTC

  Falklands: Argentina formally request Hillary Clinton US mediation

  

  Argentine president Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner formally requested visiting Secretary of State Hillary Clinton that the United States act as intermediate in the Argentine-United Kingdom Falkland Islands dispute.

• Monday, March 1st 2010 - 05:56 UTC

  Hillary Clinton adds Buenos Aires to her Latinamerican tour

  

  United States Secretary of State Hillary Clinton will add Argentina to her Latinamerican tour which begins Monday at the inauguration of Uruguayan president elect Jose Mujica in Montevideo, U.S. officials said on Sunday.