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Kamala Harris bets Republican voters will help her win against Trump

Kamala Harris bets Republican voters will help her win against Trump

The vice president’s campaign has been boosted by the recent endorsement of former Representative Liz Cheney and the support of other Republicans opposed to Donald Trump, developments that his team believes reinforce his attempt to win over more Republican voters in battleground states than previous Democrats. To highlight that momentum, Harris will appear Wednesday with ...

Blackstone will invest US$8.2 billion in data centers in northeastern Spain

Blackstone will invest US$8.2 billion in data centers in northeastern Spain

blackstonethe world’s largest alternative asset manager, plans to invest 7.5 billion euros ($8.2 billion) in the development of data centers in Aragon, northeast of Spainthus boosting the region’s growing status as one of the leading cloud computing centers in Europe. The venture capital fund United States will follow technology giants like Microsoft and amazon who ...

Rating company S&P maintains Chile's foreign currency debt rating

Rating company S&P maintains Chile’s foreign currency debt rating

Additionally, the firm maintained the long-term outlook at “stable,” citing an improvement in the country’s fiscal trajectory in recent years. The agency Standard & Poor’s said on Tuesday that it maintained Chile’s debt rating in foreign currency at “A/A-1” and that it revised its outlook to “stable”, citing an improvement in the country’s fiscal trajectory. ...

Government of Ecuador will extend electricity rationing until October 20

Government of Ecuador will extend electricity rationing until October 20

The Ministry of Energy and Mines of Ecuador reported that Energy rationing will be extended in that country until next October 20 and detailed the cutting shifts for nine distributors that serve eight regions. The Minister of Energy, Inés Manzano, explained that the cuts, like last week, did notor will exceed 10 hours. However, the ...

Israeli data shows hundreds of structures damaged after Iranian attack

Israeli data shows hundreds of structures damaged after Iranian attack

Damage to private property caused by Iran’s recent missile attack on IsraelThey amounted to between 150,000 and 200,000 million shekels (US$40 and US$53 million), according to figures provided by the Israeli tax authority.making it the costliest attack since the start of the war a year ago. In the two weeks following the October 1 attack, ...

Donald Trump suggested tariffs of more than 200% on vehicles coming from Mexico

Donald Trump suggested tariffs of more than 200% on vehicles coming from Mexico

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump suggested on Sunday that he could impose tariffs of more than 200% on vehicles imported from Mexico., by stating that his objective would be to prevent the sale of automobiles from Mexico to the United States. “All I’m doing is saying ‘I’ll put in 200 or 500, I don’t care.’. ...

SpaceX gets approval ahead of schedule to launch fifth spacecraft

SpaceX gets approval ahead of schedule to launch fifth spacecraft

SpaceX received approval from US air safety regulators to launch the fifth major test flight of its massive Starship rocket, a critical mission that will see the booster portion return from space and attempt to land upright. The Federal Aviation Administration, which licenses rocket launches and reentry, granted approval in an order Saturday. Now that ...

Germany announces new military aid to Ukraine during Zelensky's visit to Berlin

Germany announces new military aid to Ukraine during Zelensky’s visit to Berlin

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz on Friday announced a 1.4 billion euro ($1.53 billion) military aid package for Ukraine until the end of 2024. and told President Volodymyr Zelensky that it is a signal to Russia that the West will not stop supporting kyiv. The aid will be provided jointly with partner countries Belgium, Denmark and ...

Technical tie remains between undecided in the final stretch of the US elections.

Technical tie remains between undecided in the final stretch of the US elections.

The United States is three weeks away from an election that commentators have called “totally unpredictable,” and there is no clarity for anyone. With Joe Biden, everything seemed to point to Donald Trump’s return to the White House; However, with Kamala Harris, that scenario has a 50% chance of happening and a 50% chance of ...

The European Commission endorses the proposal to create a tax on large fortunes

The European Commission endorses the proposal to create a tax on large fortunes

The European Commission’s endorsement of the G20 proposal to create a global 2% tax for large fortunes with assets exceeding US$1 billion has generated a heated debate in the European Parliament. The measure was praised this Wednesday by the vice president of the European Commission, Margaritis Schinas, during his speech in the chamber. Schimas said ...