USA
Vai alla Scheda Paese »There are risks and costs to action. But they are far less than the long range risks of comfortable inaction.
— John Fitzgerald Kennedy
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This is as good as it gets for the US economy
America has already been through a renaissance — it is unlikely to be reborn again
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Why and how we need to reskill at scale
Research by the US firm Gartner indicates that the number of skills needed for a single job, say in marketing or sales, has increased by 10% per year for the last four years. At the same time, 30% of the skills required for a job four years ago are no ...
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What Joe Biden can learn from Richard Nixon’s playbook
As it did 50 years ago, the US economy finds itself at a turning point
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She won't be right - we have to step up our Covid defences
OPINION: “Big stick” law changes won't make us scan more often. We have to change our culture.
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BNDES e fundo internacional lançam projeto de R$ 1 bi para Semiárido
Um projeto de R$ 1 bilhão, com apoio internacional, pretende capacitar produtores rurais e aumentar a segurança alimentar no Semiárido do Nordeste. Lançado nesta semana pelo Fundo Internacional para Desenvolvimento Agrícola (Fida), em parceria com o Banco Nacional de Desenvolvimento Econômico e Social (BNDES) e o Ministério da Economia, o ...
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Celltrion expects Covid variants to fuel global treatments growth
South Korean group targets $1.3bn in annual sales in markets including Europe and US
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Foreigners invest US$9.6 billion in Brazilian stock market, highest amount since Real Plan in 1994
RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - The first half of 2021, full of positive surprises for the Brazilian economy, brought a record balance of foreign investment in the local capital market. According to B3, as of last Wednesday, September 30, these investors had invested R$48 billion (US$9.6 billion) in the cash ...
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Dollar rises 2.35% against Brazil’s real (R$) in one week, due to political tensions
RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - In the last trading session of the week, two forces balanced each other in the foreign exchange market, causing the dollar to hover near stability in the last stretch of Friday. On the one hand, the greater appetite for emerging currencies abroad after the labor ...
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STF orders Prosecutor General to open investigation against Bolsonaro in Covaxin case
RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - The Prosecutor General's Office (PGR) on Friday, 2, requested the opening of an investigation at the Federal Supreme Court (STF) to investigate President Jair Bolsonaro for dereliction of duty after he was advised of possible irregularities in the R$1.6 billion (US$320 million) contract for the ...
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CNI aumenta previsão de crescimento da economia para 4,9%, neste ano
A economia brasileira deve registrar crescimento de 4,9% neste ano, em comparação com 2020. A previsão para a expansão do Produto Interno Bruto (PIB), soma de todos os bens e serviços produzidos no país, é da Confederação Nacional da Indústria (CNI). Em março, a CNI projetava uma expansão menor, de 3%. ...
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Last US, NATO Forces Leave Key Afghanistan Base
The last US and Nato forces have left Afghanistan’s Bagram airbase, the centre of the war against militants for some 20 years. The pull-out could signal that the complete withdrawal of foreign forces from Afghanistan is imminent. President Joe Biden has said US forces will be gone by 11 September. ...
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Topadvocaat Mounia Benabdallah: ‘Mislukken kon ik me niet permitteren’
Van Osdorp tot New York – dat is het succesverhaal van Mounia Benabdallah, partner bij advocatenkantoor Baker McKenzie. Ze ziet veel succesvolle migranten, al worden die nog te vaak als uitzondering gezien. „Ik probeer bruggen te bouwen.”
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Hyundai Motor, Kia record all-time high sales in US
Hyundai Motor and Kia witnessed all-time high sales in the United States in the first half of this year, the companies said Friday. The two automotive brands of the largest Korean automobile group sold a combined 804,944 vehicles in the US in the f
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IMF sees much stronger US growth, 2021 GDP +7%
WASHINGTON: The IMF is bullish on the US economic recovery, predicting growth will hit 7 percent this year -- much stronger than previously forecast and "the fastest pace in a generation," the Fund said in a report Thursday.
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Hyundai, Kia's US sales up 44% in June
Hyundai Motor Co. and its affiliate Kia Corp. said Friday their combined sales jumped 44 percent in the United States last month from a year earlier on strong demand for their SUVs. Hyundai and Kia sold 140,951 vehicles in the US in June, up from 98
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Defender of two presidential pre-candidates leaves Nicaragua due to threats
RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL – Nicaraguan lawyer Elton Ortega, defender of opposition presidential pre-candidates Arturo Cruz and Juan Sebastián Chamorro, both detained almost four months before the general elections under a law that labels them as “traitors of the homeland”, left Nicaragua due to “threats”, informed Thursday, the press team ...
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Trump Was Not Indicted. But the Charges Still Threaten Him.
The criminal case against the former president’s business could deliver a blow to his finances, and he remains the focus of a broader investigation in New York.
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Balança comercial tem melhor saldo da história no primeiro semestre
Beneficiada pela alta das commodities (bens primários com cotação internacional), a balança comercial registrou o melhor saldo da história para o primeiro semestre, desde o início da série histórica, em 1989. De janeiro a junho, o país exportou US$ 37,496 bilhões a mais do que importou. O saldo é 68,2% maior ...
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Governo eleva para US$ 105,3 bi projeção de superávit comercial
A alta no preço das commodities (bens primários com cotação internacional) e a recuperação da demanda externa em diversas partes do mundo, principalmente na Ásia, fizeram o Ministério da Economia elevar de US$ 89,4 bilhões para US$ 105,3 bilhões a projeção de superávit comercial (exportações menos importações) em 2021. Caso ...
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US Supreme Court upholds Arizona law in voting rights challenge
Justices split along ideological lines in 6-3 decision that comes amid broader battle over ballot access
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Seegene inks partnership with Bio-Rad to sell its diagnostic tests in the US
South Korean diagnostics company Seegene said Thursday that the company has partnered with Bio-Rad Laboratories for the clinical development and commercialization of diagnostic products in the US. Under the agreement, Seegene will provide the compa