China is also the largest owner of the US Treasury securities.
Technology giant Microsoft is in talks with TikTok's parent company ByteDance to buy its US operation.
On the eve of United States President Barack Obama's maiden visit to India, the US Treasury on Thursday targeted the financial and support networks of the Lashkar-e-Tayiba and Jaish-e-Mohammed and also took action against Azam Cheema, who helped train operatives for the November 2008 Mumbai attacks and was the "mastermind" behind the July 2006 Mumbai train bombings carried out by LeT.
US Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner has said that he is in favour of expansion of H-1B visa programme, offered to highly skilled professionals and students to live and work in the country.
US Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner has sought level playing field for American companies in China.
Industrialists Anand Mahindra and Ratan Tata will co-host a power lunch for CEOs with the visiting US Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner on April 7.
The rupee resumed lower at 64.20 per dollar.
A group of influential Senators has asked the US Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner to list China as a currency manipulator in his April 15 bi-annual exchange rate report to the Congress.
When President Barack Obama and Dr Manmohan Singh had announced the initiative, Geithner had said that 'India is an emerging global power and a country with which the US has an increasingly important economic and financial relationship.'
The US economy, which is hit by one of the worst crisis after the Great Depression, is coming back stronger and faster than predicted, the US Treasury Secretary, Timothy Geithner, has said.
He praised the "very bold move" taken by China's central bank to stop financial transactions with North Korea.
With various financial sector bills pending in Parliament, the US today said India should further liberalise this area to sustain 8-9 per cent growth it was recording before being impacted by global economic crisis.
Billionaire Mukesh Ambani-run firm sold $1 billion of 10-year notes and $500 million of 30-year bonds, the company said.
India, China and other countries from the emerging markets are likely to grow at a high rate for sustained period of time as they have a long way to go to bring their people from agriculture into industry, US Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner told US lawmakers.
American International Group is in talks with the US government to speed up an exit plan designed to repay taxpayers in full while enabling the giant insurer to regain independence, says a media report.
The nearly one trillion dollar EU-IMF package to bail-out Greece from its sovereign debt crisis may impact China, as it would limit options for Beijing to diversify its overseas financial portfolio and may even affect its exports.
India retains its number one position in gold consumption in 2009, recording a total demand of 405.8 tonnes.
The US, which witnessed one of the worst economic crisis in recent times, is coming out of recession faster and stronger than many countries of the world, a top Obama Administration official has said.
Geithner said during their discussions this week, in Singapore and China, US President Barack Obama emphasised that the US and China must be at the centre of efforts to put the global economy on a more sustainable and balanced growth path.
The US slapped sanctions on four Pakistani militants linked to the Lashkar-e-Tayiba and Al-Qaeda, with one of them having links to Dawood Ibrahim, for their involvement in a series of terrorist activities including bombings in the Mumbai train and Samjhauta Express.
The country's largest private sector lender ICICI Bank on Friday said it has raised $500 million through an issue of bonds in the international market.
The country's largest private sector lender ICICI Bank on Friday said it has raised $500 million through an issue of bonds in the international market.
Mukherjee is in Washington, DC to co-chair the US-India CEO's Forum with US Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner.
Osama bin Laden's Al Qaeda is in its worst financial state in several years, while the Taliban's funding is flourishing as they rely on a range of criminal activities to fund attacks on US-led forces in Afghanistan, a senior US Treasury Department official has said.
So, Tim Geithner, the US Treasury secretary, is fighting chronic uncertainty with transparency. The results of the "stress tests", an exercise to identify undercapitalised banks so the government can make sure they have enough capital to recover, will be announced on Thursday.
The US economy has been growing comfortably for several quarters.
In an interview to the Financial Times, AIG Chief Executive Officer Robert Benmosche said it would take at least two years for AIG to sell businesses and earn enough profits to repay the government and persuade it to sell its 80 per cent stake.
After sixty years of Congress misrule, India has most of the world's poor people, and some of the worst health and nutrition indicators, even worse than much poorer sub-Saharan Africa. This is truly a crime and a national shame.
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United States President-elect Barack Obama on Monday officially unveiled the economic team that will assist him in tackling what he termed 'an economic crisis of historic proportions'.Obama has named New York Federal Reserve President Tim Geithner as US Treasury Secretary and former Treasury Secretary Larry Summers as chief of the National Economic Council.
Obama administration wants to force a wide range of large financial institutions to hold more capital as part of a sweeping regulatory overhaul
The US Treasury's new acronym in its long list of programmes - PPIP or the Public-Private Investment Programme - has lifted market hopes that the administration is moving closer to restoring stability in the US financial system.
Citigroup chief economist Lewis Alexander is leaving the troubled financial services entity to join the US Treasury department, says a media report.
The Pakistani PM believed New Delhi rebuffed his offer of talks because his country is an issue in the elections in the neighbouring country.
Foreign institutional investors (FIIs) are set to pump in more funds in debt securities, as the next government under the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) is expected to be a stable one and is seen as growth-oriented by market participants.
The US government, under its $700-billion bailout plan, has purchased shares in 30 American banks for a total of over $150 billion, half of which have gone into Citigroup, JPMorgan Chase and Wells Fargo.
US Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner has said he would not rule out the option of forcing out chief executives of banks which have received taxpayers' money but are not performing well.
Even as US President Barack Obama urged his countrymen to buy American cars, the United States Treasury Secretary on Monday insisted that the country is not in favour of protectionism and has a great interest in a growing open world economy.
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