Category: Brazil

Although the Uruguay River is the only thing that physically separates Brazil from Argentina at one point, financially speaking the two countries have been worlds apart. Brazil has been struggling […]

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 […]

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 […]

Yearly inflation rates of 80%, the currency down in value to 2.5 or even lower against the dollar, negative GDP, and noncompliance with International Monetary Fund goals. Such were 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 […]