• Giappone

    Pound tops $1.50, euro up as markets, Brussels expect U.K. to stay in EU

    The pound and euro both soared Thursday amid growing market confidence that Britain would vote to keep their country a member of the European Union. The pound topped $1.50 an hour after polls closed at 2100 GMT, after trading higher against the dollar all day as investors hoped the Brexit ...

  • Cuba

    Remesas a Cuba en 2015 alcanzaron la cifra récord de 3.354 millones dólares

    El envío de remesas a Cuba ha experimentado un crecimiento sin precedentes en la isla y convertido este mercado en el de "crecimiento más dinámico" de Latinoamérica, con la cifra récord de 3.354 millones de dólares en 2015, señaló hoy en un artículo la consultora The Havana Consulting Group.

  • Cuba

    Remesas a Cuba en 2015 alcanzaron la cifra récord de 3.354 millones dólares

    Solo entre 2008 y 2015, las remesas a Cuba crecieron en 1.907 millones de dólares, es decir, una media anual de 238 millones de dólares, "un hecho sin precedentes en el mercado cubano desde que comenzara oficialmente el envío de remesas a la isla en 1993", destacó en un artículo ...

  • Portogallo

    Estado, famílias e empresas estão mais endividados

    Dados relativos ao mês de abril foram hoje divulgados pelo Banco de Portugal

  • USA

    Capital hill

    THE Republican nominee for president may be all blather and bombast, but the party’s leadership in the House of Representatives is trying to make up for that by producing lots of weighty policy proposals. The latest, which Jeb Hensarling, chairman of the Financial Services Committee, plans to unveil this week, ...

  • Bulgaria

    Speed bumps in the night

    IT IS a ruse familiar to officials the world over: if you have embarrassing or controversial news, release it on a Friday, the later the better. The decision on June 17th, a Friday, by the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), Wall Street’s main regulator, to approve a new stock exchange ...

  • India

    Two stumbles forward, one back

    LAST November, two days after India’s ruling party suffered a drubbing at local polls in the state of Bihar, the government unexpectedly opened a dozen new industries to foreign direct investment (FDI). A gushing official called it “the biggest path-breaking and the most radical changes in the FDI regime ever ...

  • USA

    How the bottom half lives

    THERE is not just one Mexico, a common line runs, but two of them. The northern half of the country—the states bordering America and the Bajío region to the south of them—is the “North American” Mexico, an area of higher productivity, faster growth and greater levels of foreign investment. To ...

  • Cina

    Sleepy giant

    CHINESE business leaders will gather on June 26th in Tianjin, a charmless industrial city near Beijing, for the annual “Summer Davos” conference. This talking shop for big shots, organised by the World Economic Forum, will feature endless discussions about the fourth industrial revolution, panels on the internet of things and ...

  • USA

    Free and easy listening

    A chorus of disapproval IN LOVE or in business, it is not a good idea to be on the wrong side of Taylor Swift. She has slated ex-boyfriends in her songs. And last year she publicly criticised Apple Music’s plan not to pay artists during the streaming service’s launch period. Apple ...