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Cuba has eased travel rules, and General Motors is unveiling its 2014 Chevrolet Corvette Stingray, with CNBC's Michelle Caruso-Cabrera and Stephan Paternot, Slated co-founder & chairman.
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*Source says China eyes tougher $4 bln loan terms. CARACAS, Feb 1- Venezuela's government and state oil company PDVSA are in urgent talks over a long-expected $6 billion in loans from China and U.S. energy giant Chevron that would help relieve the nation's strained finances, sources close to the discussions said.
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Jan 31- Schlumberger Ltd, the world's largest oilfield services company, said on Thursday it would wind down operations in Iran this year after booking $208 million in net income there in 2012..
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CARACAS, Venezuela-- The chief executive of Russian energy company Rosneft said Tuesday that Russia will keep deepening cooperation with Venezuela's government in oil, natural gas and electrical projects. Rosneft chief executive Igor Sechin said the company plans to invest about $10 billion in Venezuela in the coming years.
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CARACAS, Jan 28- South American OPEC member Venezuela is modifying its windfall oil tax system to redistribute revenues and channel more dollars to the Central Bank, the energy minister said on Monday.
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CARACAS, Jan 25- A supermarket in a posh district of Caracas is barren of wheat flour but well stocked with gourmet cream-filled sweetbread imported from Italy. Periodic product shortages have become a fact of life under socialist President Hugo Chavez, who has not been seen since undergoing cancer surgery in Cuba seven weeks ago.
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SIOUX FALLS, S.D.-- George McGovern once gave his daughter a bookend made out of soapstone in the shape of a bear _ a symbol of the "Terr the bear" nickname the former South Dakota senator often called Teresa, who froze to death 18 years ago in a snow bank near a bar where she'd been drinking.
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*EU seeks to deepen trade ties with buoyant Latin America. BRUSSELS/ SANTIAGO, Jan 25 F- EU leaders take their hunt for economic growth to Latin America this weekend as the bloc tries to emerge from three years of crisis, but a long-stalled free-trade deal with Brazil and Argentina remains distant.
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CARACAS, Jan 23- Shortages of consumer goods in Venezuela may worsen if the government does not increase access to hard currency and ease import bottlenecks, an official with the country's main industry group said in an interview.
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NIAMEY/ BAMAKO- Chadian forces advanced towards the Mali border on Tuesday as an African troop deployment and a U.S. military airlift swelled international support for French operations against Islamist rebels occupying the north of Mali.
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*New law would prevent suspects from leaving Canada. Canada condemned the attack and said it was seeking more details from the Algerian authorities.
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*ThyssenKrupp shareholders' meeting due on Friday. FRANKFURT, Jan 16- Some ThyssenKrupp AG investors have seized on big losses and scandals to call for the German steelmaker's chairman to step down but he has the backing of the biggest shareholder.
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WASHINGTON- President Barack Obama on Monday rejected any negotiations with Republicans over raising the U.S. borrowing limit, accusing his opponents of trying to extract a ransom for not ruining the economy in the latest fiscal fight.
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*Brazil urges Maduro to hold elections quickly. SAO PAULO/ BRASILIA, Jan 14- Brazil is urging Venezuela's government to hold elections as quickly as possible if President Hugo Chavez dies, senior officials told Reuters on Monday, a major intervention by Latin America's regional powerhouse that could help ensure a smoother leadership transition in Caracas.
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*Brazil urges Maduro to hold elections quickly. SAO PAULO/ BRASILIA, Jan 14- Brazil is urging Venezuela's government to hold elections as quickly as possible if President Hugo Chavez dies, senior officials told Reuters on Monday, a major intervention by Latin America's regional powerhouse that could help ensure a smoother leadership transition in Caracas.
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Cuba has eased travel rules, and General Motors is unveiling its 2014 Chevrolet Corvette Stingray, with CNBC's Michelle Caruso-Cabrera and Stephan Paternot, Slated co-founder & chairman.
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Hillary Clinton will testify on the Benghazi attack on Jan. 23, and Lance Armstrong has just admitted to taking performance enhancing drugs, with CNBC's Larry Kudlow; and CNBC's Michelle Caruso-Cabrera reports Cuba has eased its travel rules, allowing Cubans to keep residency amid travel.
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NEW YORK, Jan 11- U.S. regulators are expected to order JPMorgan Chase& Co to correct lapses in how it polices suspect money flows, two people familiar with the situation said, in the latest move by officials to force banks to tighten their anti money-laundering systems.
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NEW YORK, Jan 11- U.S. regulators are expected to order JPMorgan Chase& Co to correct lapses in how it polices suspect money flows, two people familiar with the situation said, in the latest move by officials to force banks to tighten their anti money-laundering systems.
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Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez stayed on his sickbed in Cuba on Thursday while supporters rallied on the day he should have been sworn in for a new six-year term.
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WASHINGTON- President Barack Obama will nominate White House Chief of Staff Jack Lew to be his next Treasury secretary, choosing a budget expert and close confidant to spearhead tough fiscal fights with Congress over the U.S. deficit.