Walmart will create new job opportunities

The hypermarket chain Walmart, the company with the highest turnover in the world, will allocate 350,000 million dollars to the purchase of products "manufactured, grown or assembled" in the United States over a period of 10 years,…

Former president of FC Barcelona was arrested

Agents from the Central Economic Crimes Area of ​​the Criminal Investigation Division of the Mossos d'Esquadra searched the FC Barcelona offices at the Camp Nou to obtain more information on the case known as "Barça Gate". On the other…

Colombia January unemployment rate was 17.3 %

Colombia's unemployment rate stood at 17.3 % in January, compared to 13 % in the same month the previous year, with a total of 4.16 million unemployed people in the Andean country during the first month of the year, according to data…

Maduro bets on the digitization of the economy

The President of Venezuela, Nicolás Maduro, reported on his plans to implement the use of a "digital Bolivar" in the country. Despite not offering further details, the national president indicated that "there is a good surprise for the…

BID Annual Meeting will address economic recovery

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…

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…

Brazil will eliminate diesel taxes

The president of Brazil, Jair Bolsonaro, announced that the government will eliminate federal taxes on diesel for two months, in order to seek the tax exemption indefinitely, and will abolish tax rates on gas permanently. This was…

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…