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BBVA Research weighs economic impact of U.S. 2020 presidential election

Lori Moore — Wed, 22 Jul 2020 20:19:29 +0000

The BBVA Research team published its insights into the economic impact of possible presidential election outcomes in 2020, noting that a divided government is unlikely to make significant policy changes, resulting in a continuation of the status quo in terms of growth.

At BBVA Compass, panel dissects the risks facing bank’s cross-border clients

kimberly.tabor — Wed, 31 Jan 2018 18:43:32 +0000

BBVA Compass assembled a worldly-wise panel in Houston last week to help its Global Markets clients, all of whom maintain assets outside the U.S., sort through the barrage of global economic news to better understand the risks.

2017 Special: A year in images

Blanca González del Fresno — Wed, 20 Dec 2017 00:49:17 +0000

From a political and economic standpoint, U.S: President Donald Trump’s inauguration early in the year, and the negotiations between the European Union and the United Kingdom over Brexit, were the highlights of a year also marked by a spate of elections in the heart of Europe: the UK, France and Germany. Here are some of the milestones of 2017:

Responsibility, confidence and quality: the bedrock of data

No utilizar — Mon, 29 May 2017 22:58:11 +0000

Companies are facing the challenge of correctly interpreting information to create valid patterns they can apply to their businesses.

The thirteen milestones of 2016

pilar.mesquida — Tue, 27 Dec 2016 10:32:07 +0000

Now that the end of 2016 is just a few hours away, it may be the right time to take a look at some of the highlights of a politically charged year. Elections, referendums, resignations and international events marked the course of the world and grabbed endless headlines.

How 'digital gerrymandering' can swing the American election

david.corral — Tue, 08 Nov 2016 10:54:15 +0000

Are you having a crushingly tedious day at work? Try playing Google autocomplete. Type the start of a question into the world's most trusted search engine, and marvel as the aggregated curiosity of the global crowd is marshalled to anticipate your inquiry

Pedro Pablo Kuczynski is the new President of Peru

nelson.alvarado — Fri, 10 Jun 2016 10:04:11 +0000

In the closest elections of Peru’s history, the economist Pedro Pablo Kuczynski was selected as the new President of Peru, winning by a slight margin over Keiko Fujimori.

Vote by vote: The economist who hopes to govern Peru

cristina.ferreiro — Mon, 06 Jun 2016 14:40:36 +0000

The San Pablo leper colony in Iquitos in the Peruvian Amazon is not only famous for being one of the hostels where Che Guevara stayed during his travels around Latin America in his youth. It is also known for having been the research institute where Dr Maxime Kuczynski began his fight against tropical disease in the Peruvian jungle. Maxime, a German doctor with Polish and Jewish roots, married the schoolmistress, Madeline Godard, a French citizen with Swiss lineage. Together they had a son called Pedro Pablo, born October 3 1938 in the city of Lima, the capital of Peru.

Vote by vote: She dreams of becoming the first female president of Peru

cristina.ferreiro — Mon, 06 Jun 2016 14:40:32 +0000

The first time the Peruvians set eyes on Keiko Fujimori was on the morning of April 8, 1990. It was a direct broadcast on national television of the breakfast of the surprise candidate in the presidential elections that year. In the general elections in Peru the tradition is for journalists to go en masse to the home or campaign headquarters of the presidential candidates to accompany and follow them to each of the campaign events, the first of which is their breakfast.

With the US Presidential Election This Year, 2016 Is Critical For the TTIP Negotiations

No utilizar — Fri, 18 Mar 2016 04:08:00 +0000

Op-ed by Tim Bennett for Emerging Europe 2016 is a very critical year for TTIP, and a conclusion of negotiations couldn’t come soon enough for small and medium size companies (SMEs). Nearly 95,000 out of the 28 million US SMEs export to the EU, while about 150,000 of the 20 million SMEs in the EU export to the US Most SMEs do not have the human, financial, or time resources that larger companies have to develop export markets when faced with tariffs, complex customs procedures, duplicative and expensive regulatory approval requirements. These barriers are cost prohibitive for too many SMEs.