Category: Brazil

Are there any lessons to be learned from the efforts to support Brazil? What do you think we can expect with regard to Brazil?MN: There is no need to predict […]

Christmas dinner is going to bring joy to Brazil’s Perdigao this year. Despite the recession that is expected to hit the country in full force in the coming months, the […]

When Arminio Fraga speaks, people listen. Or so say those who have watched him, over the last six months, oversee a complete turnaround in Brazil’s monetary policy. After the six- […]

In the dawn hours of July 5,thieves stole $19.8 million from the state bank of Sao Paulo’s central downtown agency in Brazil’s largest bank heist to date. The ensuing manhunt […]

In the past few years, United States and European money managers have launched operations in Brazil, offering institutional and individual investors a level of expertise previously unknown here. These firms, […]

The Baianos would say simply that they have more mandinga in the northeastern Brazilian state of Bahia than their amigos in the southern state of Rio Grande do Sul. Mandinga […]

JC Penney, the US retail giant, sparked Brazil’s first shareholder revolt last December when it bought control of Lojas Renner, a listed department store chain. The terms it offered the […]

Henri Philippe Reichstul emerged in March from nearly a decade in obscurity as a São Paulo investment banker to take on one of the most challenging and visible jobs in […]

A Newsweek correspondent years ago once described Brazil as having a rather “willy nilly” character. The nation’s status at any particular moment may be precisely what is willed by elected […]

It seems as if Brazil’s capital markets are fending off attacks on all fronts these days. A recession at home and investor aversion to risky emerging markets are taking their […]