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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France can’t lecture us on genocide, history: Turkish FM
Populism lies behind remarks made by French politicians on the issue regarding the Ottoman Armenian population and incidents during World War I, Turkey’s Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu said on April 12.
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China’s ENN Ecological pulls out of plan to buy Toshiba’s LNG business in U.S.
Chinese chemicals maker ENN Ecological Holdings Co. is scrapping a plan to buy Toshiba Corp.’s liquefied natural gas operations in the United States, the Japanese ...
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Västsvenska tidningar får ny huvudägare
Stampen Media, som ger ut Göteborgs-Posten och en rad andra tidningar i Västsverige, får en ny huvudägare. NWT Gruppen och VK Media har tillsammans med norska Polaris Media bildat ett konsortium som köper 51 procent av Stampen. Det nybildade konsortiet
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Börsaktuella Uber: Blir kanske aldrig vinst
Amerikanska taxitjänsten Uber vill in på börsen men potentiella aktieägare kan inte räkna med att bolaget någonsin kommer att gå med vinst. Det framgår av det prospekt som nyligen lämnats in inför introduktionen på New York-börsen.
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Abraaj executives held on US fraud charges
Collapsed private equity group’s founder and former partner face claims of misleading investors
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No, not all of us young women want a sponsor
I was fed up with seeing headline after headline of stories that disparage young women.
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Opioid Sales Reps Swarmed New York at Height of Crisis
New disclosures in the New York attorney general’s lawsuit detail the massive sales efforts of Purdue Pharma and other companies.
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Deputies of NATO states to meet in Antalya
Lawmakers, bureaucrats, military representatives and foreign mission chiefs from NATO member states will meet in Turkey's southern province of Antalya on April 12-14.
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Private education is booming in new markets and new forms
HOUSED in a jumble of ancient buildings in the shadow of Westminster Abbey, Westminster School has been educating boys since it was founded in 1560 by Queen Elizabeth I to provide lessons for 40 poor scholars. It has evolved since then—its 750 pupils now include some girls, and with fees ...
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How Chile combines competition and public funding
ONE OF THE most effective soft-power programmes ever was launched in 1955 by the American government. Over the next 18 years, it sent over 100 Chilean students to Chicago University to study economics under Milton Friedman. The ideas those students absorbed were regarded as outlandish in their increasingly socialist country ...
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Dazi e guerra commerciale: via ai negoziati Ue-Usa per evitare l’escalation
mentre le autorità americane minacciano nuovi dazi contro le importazioni europee, i Ventotto hanno trovato oggi un accordo a livello diplomatico per affidare alla Commissione europea un mandato negoziale in vista di un accordo commerciale con gli Stati Uniti nel settore ...
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Brussels paves way for trade talks with Washington
EU move boosts efforts to avert trade war with US
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Brazilian Startup JaUbra Goes Where Uber Drivers Panic
By Richard Mann, Contributing Reporter SÃO PAULO, BRAZIL – When Alvimar da Silva realized Uber did not reach some of the more dangerous, far-flung areas of São Paulo, Brazil’s largest city, he saw an opportunity: If the popular ride-sharing service did not go there, he would. After six months of ...
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Deadly Storm in Rio Causes Losses of Almost 50 Million Dollars
By Xiu Ying, Contributing Reporter RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL – The torrential storm that hit the Brazilian city of Rio de Janeiro on Monday night caused local business losses of R$ 182.8 million (US$ 47 million), according to the Fecomércio (Federation of the Commerce of Goods, Services, and Tourism of ...
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Under Koo Kwang-mo, LG expands investments in US startups
Under its fourth-generation leader Koo Kwang-mo, LG Group is expanding investments in startups in the fields of latest t
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Food & Beverage
Come bevono il caffè gli americani?
La National Coffee Association ha presentato i risultati dello studio sulle abitudini degli americani per il consumo di caffè. Il settore conferma i livelli di crescita fatti registrare negli ultimi anni, ma i consumatori a stelle e strisce sono sempre più alla ricerca di chicchi gourmet a discapito del classico ...
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Campos Neto defende ampliação do mercado de capitais e autonomia do BC
O presidente do Banco Central (BC), Roberto Campos Neto, destacou, durante evento nos Estados Unidos, que uma de suas prioridades na instituição é ampliar e tornar mais democrático o mercado de capitais no país, com a participação de mais famílias e empresas. A afirmação faz parte de apontamentos das apresentações ...
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Fmi: l’Italia riaccende i timori sul legame debito-banche nella Ue
L'incertezza sui conti pubblici italiani «ha rialimentato i timori sul nesso tra debito sovrano e sistema finanziario», quello «al cuore della crisi del 2011-12». Lo afferma il Fondo monetario internazionale nel suo Global financial stability report, presentato a Washington. Dopo la ...
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Brazil Government to pay Petrobras USD 9 billion for Oil Contract Revision
By Richard Mann, Contributing Reporter RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL – The Brazilian government reached a landmark deal to pay state-controlled oil company Petróleo Brasileiro SA US$ 9.058 billion for revising a transfer-of-rights oil contract, Energy Minister Bento Albuquerque said on Tuesday. Albuquerque told reporters after a meeting in Brasilia that ...
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Swiss Attorney General Refunds Millions to Brazil
By Richard Mann, Contributing Reporter RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL – Crimefighters in Switzerland and Brazil pledged to intensify cooperation to resolve the sprawling corruption case linked to Brazilian state oil firm Petrobras in which around US$ 701 million (700 million Swiss francs) remain frozen in the alpine country. The Swiss ...
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Edo, CBN Partner To Boost State’s Agripreneur Programme
LEADERSHIP: Determined to provide farmers with access to funding and other inputs to increase productivity, the Edo state Government has partnered with the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) on a synergy between the Anchor Borrowers’ Programme and the state’s Agripreneur programme. Special Adviser to the Edo State Governor on Agriculture, ...