Category: Brazil

Some of the world’s largest reinsurers are waiting in the wings as Brazil slowly prepares for the privatization of its reinsurance market.

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 […]

With the international markets closed to Brazilian companies, well-known firms are turning to the internal markets to either roll over external positions or fatten their coffers in preparation for tough […]

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 […]

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 […]