This March 17, the 61st annual meeting of the Inter-American Development Bank (BID) will take place, where economic and financial leaders will debate through a virtual meeting issues related to economic recovery and sustainable growth in Latin America and the Caribbean.
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Digital dollar would benefit the US economy
The Secretary of the Treasury of the United States, Janet Yellen, assured that the implementation of a digital dollar would be of great benefit to the economy.
In an interview for the New York Times, Yellen also assured that "the Federal…
Boeing recommends suspending operations of Pratt & Whitney 4000-112 powered aircraft
Boeing recommends suspending the operations of the 69 777 aircraft in service and the 69 in storage equipped with the 'Pratt & Whitney' 4000-112 engines, a model that suffered an incident last Saturday in the United States with the…
Brazil will eliminate diesel taxes
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This was…
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Epic Games, developer of the popular video game Fortnite, filed a lawsuit against Apple before the European Commission for abuse of a dominant position through the use of "anti-competitive restrictions" in the iPhone ecosystem, as reported…
Japan’s GDP declines after 12 years
The Gross Domestic Product (GDP) of Japan, the world's third largest economy, registered an annual contraction of 4.8 % in 2020, the first since the 2009 financial crisis, despite the 3 % expansion observed in the last three months of the…
Inflation in the US remains at 1.4 % in January
The consumer price index (CPI) of the United States stood at 1.4 % last January compared to the same month last year, so it did not register any change compared to the year-on-year inflation observed during the previous month, according to…
Facebook will reduce political content in its post feed
Facebook will control the prominence of political content on its eponymous social network and this week will carry out a test to reduce this type of publications among a limited number of users in Canada, Brazil and Indonesia, and later in…
Huawei expects a new open US policy
The founder and CEO of Huawei, Ren Zhengfei, expressed his wish that the new US government can have a "more open" policy, which would benefit the economy and the US companies themselves.
"We hope that the US government can have a more open…
Chipmakers warn of a global supply shortage
The industry of processor manufacturing companies, among which is the US company specializing in mobile chips Qualcomm, have warned about a shortage of semiconductor supplies that could slow down the production of electronic devices around…
Argentina and the IMF want an agreement before May
The spokesman for the International Monetary Fund (IMF), Gerry Rice, said that the Washington-based institution will do everything possible to reach a debt agreement with Argentina before May, as suggested by Argentine Economy Minister,…
Hackers built a fake version of WhatsApp for iPhone
Cybersecurity tech firm ZecOps recently reported the detection of an attack against WhatsApp users. Apparently, a group of hackers designed an almost identical fake version of this application, in order to steal information from iPhone…