WASHINGTON, March 14 (UPI) -- Nestor Kirchner didn't mean to let slip -- or maybe he did. No sooner had he conferred with Economy Minister Roberto Lavagna about Lavagna's talks with the Inte

WASHINGTON, March 9 (UPI) -- President Bush and the U.S. markets have benefited from recent events in the Middle East. And, up until now, Mr. Bush has acted with skill -- speaking softly an

WASHINGTON, March 4 (UPI) -- President Bush's lead piece of second-term legislation, to establish voluntary private accounts for Social Security, may be dead even before arrival. If so, the

NEW YORK, March 2 (UPI) -- In the days following the 9/11 attacks, few people had high expectations for the countries of the Middle East and South Asia. The world's most prosperous econom

SEATTLE, Feb. 18 (UPI) -- Thailand's equity market has outperformed most in the world this year, a classic re-election bull run abetted by the inflow of regional disaster relief and a cr

NEW YORK, Feb. 16 (UPI) -- In a few weeks, CNN anchorman-reporter Lou Dobbs will receive the 2004 Tocqueville Statesmanship Award for his relentless coverage of the giveaway of U.S. jobs,

BERN, Switzerland, Feb. 11 (UPI) -- Switzerland is best known, in banking and investment terms, for the sage and agile "Gnomes of Zurich." But as my return to this puzzle of a nation revealed anew

MIAMI, Jan. 28 (UPI) -- Here in the un-frozen tundra, investors generally focus on Latin America, in what is becoming the investment hub of the Southern Hemisphere. Even so, all eyes a

HANOVER, N.H., Jan. 21 (UPI) -- It is fitting that only hours before George Bush's second inaugural, proclaiming America's commitment to building the Democratic Century, one of the progenitors