Apr 17 Watch 8:03 News Wrap: Obama urges Senate to vote on Lynch confirmation By PBS News Hour In our news wrap Friday, President Obama hosted Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi at the White House, and addressed a list of issues, including the way GOP leaders are handling one of his main cabinet appointments. Also, financial leaders from… Continue watching
Apr 17 G-20 finance officials confronting global weakness, market instability By Martin Crutsinger, Associated Press WASHINGTON — Finance officials from the world's major economies are searching for the right mix of policies to bolster a still-weak global recovery nearly six years after the Great Recession while confronting a range of new threats from a soaring… Continue reading
Jun 19 Watch News Wrap: JPMorgan Was Honest With Shareholders, Jamie Dimon Says In other news Tuesday, JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon faced more questions from Congress involving the bank's $2 billion tradition loss. Also, at the G-20 Summit in Mexico, European leaders resisted pressure for immediate action on their debt crisis. Continue watching
Nov 12 Watch At G-20, Loose Goals Set for Trade Imbalances; U.S. Prods China on Currency World leaders at the G-20 summit in South Korea set broad guidelines for the global economy but left out details on how key issues will be resolved. Jeffrey Brown speaks with Sewell Chan of the New York Times, who covered… Continue watching
Nov 12 Watch G-20 Leaders Leave With Few Specifics on Trade, Currency The Group of 20 summit in South Korea concluded with some broad goals but many lingering questions over currency disagreements and trade imbalances. Judy Woodruff gets more on what happened -- and what didn't happen -- with Eswar Prasad of… Continue watching
Nov 10 Watch Fed’s $600B Move a ‘Chief Irritant’ Facing Obama as G-20 Begins President Obama faces international criticism over disputed currency policy as the G-20 Summit kicks off in Seoul. World leaders question whether the U.S. Federal Reserve is making sound economic decisions for the global economy. Judy Woodruff has details. Continue watching
Nov 09 Watch News Wrap: G-20 Stimulus Pledge Boosts Markets In other news, the Dow Jones industrial average closed at a 13-month high after G-20 nations pledged to continue stimulus efforts, and Iraq set a date for national elections. Continue watching
Oct 08 Will the New G-20 Eclipse the United Nations? Question: Your exuberance the other day in discussing the addition of several countries to the G-8 — now G-20 — led me to speculate whether the new G-20 could, in a real sense, eclipse the United Nations. Can the… Continue reading
Sep 30 Paul’s Full Interview with Pres. Lula da Silva By Business Desk Editor’s note: We were only able to air sections of Paul’s wide-ranging interview with Brazilian President Lula da Silva at the G-20 late last week. In the interest of letting viewers see Lula’s complete takes on global warming, the situation… Continue reading
Sep 29 Jeffrey Sachs on the New World Economic Order By Business Desk Paul Solman: When in Pittsburgh last week for the G-20 meetings, we interviewed Columbia University economist Jeffrey Sachs, 23 years after our first interview with him. In all these years, Sachs has been a champion of both the verities… Continue reading