U.S. Helps Calm Fears of Argentine Stock Market Crisis
The Argentine peso has suffered a steep plunge in recent weeks, leading investors to sell off Argentinian stocks and bonds in the wake of a bitter defeat in legislative elections in Buenos Aires earlier this month. President Javier Milei’s La Libertad Avanza right-wing coalition party was outpaced by the Fuerza Patria, the left-wing Peronist opposition party personified by […]
U.S. Federal Reserve Chairman Keeps Interest Rates Untouched – and to the Ire of the White House
Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell has tested his mettle, refusing to budge on Trump’s demands for lowering rates. For the fifth-straight session, the Chairman keeps them steady
Roads to Nowhere: Trump vs. Lula
In a near futile effort to mend the breakdown in U.S.-Brazilian relations following planned tariffs on all Brazilian exports, a delegation of Brazilian senators travel to Washington to reopen dialogue