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US-EU Talks Set up Big Free Trade Agreement

With one phrase in the State of the Union address, President Obama supported the negotiation of a free trade agreement with the European Union.

Dow Blue Chip Index Surges Past All-time High

The Dow Jones industrial average quickly pulsed above its all-time closing high Tuesday morning in New York, grabbing 144 plus points when only 38 was needed.

Hispanics Underrepresented in South Florida Politics

More than one in five residents of Broward and Palm Beach counties is Hispanic, but that hasn't translated into power at city halls, county commissions or in Tallahassee and Washington, D.C.

HB500's MasTec Has Yet Another Banner Year

MasTec, a perennial top earner on the annual HispanicBusiness 500 index, showed record revenue, net income and EBITDA for 2012.

Calif. GOP Seeks Emphasis on Hispanic Outreach

It was no coincidence that, a few months after Hispanic voters rejected Republicans at the ballot box, delegates poured into a talk on Hispanic outreach at the California Republican Party Convention in Sacramento this weekend.

Study: Debt-Limit Votes Colored by Personal Bottom Lines

Voters trying to predict how candidates will vote on the economy may want to look beyond party ID or interest-group scorecards. The real tell may be their investment portfolios, according to a just-released analysis of one of the key votes of President Obama's first term.

Chavez Undergoing Chemo, says Venezuelan Gov't

President Hugo Chavez is receiving chemotherapy treatments at a Caracas military hospital in his ongoing battle against cancer, the Venezuelan government confirmed late Friday.

D-Day: No Sequester Breakthrough Expected

Some $85 billion in U.S. budget cuts are to start kicking in Friday if Republican leaders and President Barack Obama don't work out a deal at the White House.

Senate Rejects Sequester Bills

The U.S. Senate Thursday rebuffed two proposals to head off sequestration, meaning $85 billion in automatic spending cuts will begin to roll out.

Obama Picks Ramirez to Lead Trade Commission

The president has chosen Edith Ramirez, head of Hispanic outreach in the 2008 election campaign, as the new chairwoman of the Federal Trade Commission.

Revised Numbers Show Slight US Growth in Last Quarter

The U.S. economy just barely eked out a quarter of growth at the end of last year, according to revised estimates published by the Commerce Department Thursday morning.

Stock Rebound Confirms Fed's Role as Key Driver

Last week, investors shuddered and the Dow plunged after minutes of the Federal Reserve's January meeting highlighted a renewed debate within the central bank as to whether its easy-money policies designed to boost the economy might pose future risks to markets. The investor takeway? The Fed might stop buying bonds to keep interest rates low earlier than expected.

Supreme Court May Strike Part of Voting Rights Act

A narrow U.S. Supreme Court majority may be poised to gut a core provision of the federal Voting Rights Act, observers said Wednesday. The nine justices heard argument on a challenge from an Alabama county to Section 5 of the act, which says all or parts of 16 states, mainly in the South, have to get permission -- or "preclearance" -- from the U.S. Justice Department or a three-judge federal panel in Washington to make any changes in how people vote in their jurisdictions.

Bernanke: Economy Still Needs Stimulus

Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke told a Senate hearing Tuesday that the Fed intends to keep its stimulus policies going until the job market improves significantly, partly allaying recent concerns that it might soon rein in its bond-buying.

Ready or Not, Here Come the Budget Cuts

The deep government spending cuts that are about to happen reveal a huge miscalculation by the White House.