Caracas / AFP Venezuela’s opposition held new protests, seeking to convert widespread anger over food shortages and economic havoc into pressure for a referendum on removing embattled President Nicolas Maduro. Clad in the red, yellow and blue of the Venezuelan flag, hundreds of opposition supporters rallied on a square in eastern Caracas, brandishing messages aimed at the allegedly pro-Maduro …

  Bloomberg Argentina’s President Mauricio Macri will send a public private partnership bill to Congress in the coming weeks that will increase the country’s financing capacity by as much as $90 billion, according to his top adviser on foreign investment. The bill will allow the government to speed up its investment in infrastructure while providing legal guarantees for private sector …

  Bloomberg Last week’s tepid jobs report may have dominated financial headlines in the U.S., but the oil market quietly had some better news for the American economy. The U.S. petroleum trade deficit, the gap between the value of imports and exports, shrank to a seasonally adjusted $3.13 billion in April, the Census Bureau said on June 3. That left …