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🛍️ Luxury squeeze

Dec 31, 2025

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7 min read

🛍️ Luxury squeeze

Brazilian streets known for luxury retail saw some of the strongest rental price rises in the world, but most of the boost came from real estate development and the corporate office market.

Letícia Arcoverde
Letícia Arcoverde

Brazil Business

🚛 From highways to courtrooms

Dec 24, 2025

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7 min read

🚛 From highways to courtrooms

A 2018 law imposing a minimum freight rate for truck drivers is only now approaching full enforcement through increased oversight. But industry groups want the rules to be reviewed.

Letícia Arcoverde
Letícia Arcoverde

Brazil Business

🔕 Off the market

Dec 17, 2025

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10 min read

🔕 Off the market

Amid an IPO dry spell, the São Paulo stock exchange has seen a steady decline in the number of listed firms.

Letícia Arcoverde
Letícia Arcoverde

Brazil Business

💰 Front-loading profits

Dec 10, 2025

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9 min read

💰 Front-loading profits

Brazilian companies are rushing out shareholder dividend payouts in an attempt to avoid the rules of a soon-to-be-enforced income tax reform.

Letícia Arcoverde
Letícia Arcoverde

Brazil Business

📦 Brazil’s warehouse race

Dec 3, 2025

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9 min read

📦 Brazil’s warehouse race

The continued growth of e-commerce in Brazil is fueling a race for warehouses, pitting Latin America’s Mercado Livre against Asia’s Shopee.

Letícia Arcoverde
Letícia Arcoverde

Brazil Business

🚢 Taking stock of a trade shock

Nov 26, 2025

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10 min read

🚢 Taking stock of a trade shock

The US has exempted various products since first imposing steep tariffs on Brazilian goods in August, but the impact on trade could be as much as USD 3 billion a year.

Letícia Arcoverde
Letícia Arcoverde

Brazil Business

💸 Chronic tax debtors

Nov 19, 2025

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10 min read

💸 Chronic tax debtors

Large-scale investigations into organized crime’s money-laundering schemes gave momentum to a bill targeting companies that use tax delinquency as a business strategy.

Letícia Arcoverde
Letícia Arcoverde

Brazil Business

💼 From São Paulo to Wall Street

Nov 12, 2025

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9 min read

💼 From São Paulo to Wall Street

As the global IPO market rebounds, could US-based exchanges attract more Brazilian companies?

Letícia Arcoverde
Letícia Arcoverde

Brazil Business

🏭 Falling behind

Nov 5, 2025

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9 min read

🏭 Falling behind

Brazil's manufacturing sector is lagging compared to other economies, amid contracting monetary policy and high-tech development abroad.

Letícia Arcoverde
Letícia Arcoverde

Brazil Business

🏦 Banks vs fintechs

Oct 29, 2025

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10 min read

🏦 Banks vs fintechs

Brazil reduced its high banking concentration by benefiting fintechs through lower tax burdens and looser regulation. Is it time to take off their training wheels?

Letícia Arcoverde
Letícia Arcoverde

Brazil Business

📮 Posting losses

Oct 22, 2025

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11 min read

📮 Posting losses

Brazil’s state-controlled postal service faces its third year in the red, and the government prepares a BRL 20 billion bailout.

Letícia Arcoverde
Letícia Arcoverde

Brazil Business

🔕 IPO shortcut

Oct 15, 2025

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10 min read

🔕 IPO shortcut

The Brazilian stock exchange has gone four years without an IPO. But some companies are taking a shortcut to the market.

Letícia Arcoverde
Letícia Arcoverde

Brazil Business

📉 Ambipar goes from boom to bust

Oct 8, 2025

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4 min read

📉 Ambipar goes from boom to bust

Once buoyed by rapid expansion, green solutions firm Ambipar is now reeling from legal disputes, boardroom upheaval and controversial financial maneuvers.

Letícia Arcoverde
Letícia Arcoverde

Brazil Business

⛏️ Mining strategy

Oct 1, 2025

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3 min read

⛏️ Mining strategy

Critical minerals become increasingly tangled in geopolitics and could come to the negotiating table amid Brazil’s trade talks with the US

Letícia Arcoverde
Letícia Arcoverde

Brazil Business

🩺 Coverage denied

Sep 24, 2025

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4 min read

🩺 Coverage denied

Brazil’s top court has tightened up coverage rules for private health care, in an attempt to curb lawsuits

Letícia Arcoverde
Letícia Arcoverde

Brazil Business

🥡 Delivery wars

Sep 17, 2025

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3 min read

🥡 Delivery wars

New and returning players are pouring billions into Brazil’s food delivery market, hoping to chip away at iFood’s dominance.

Letícia Arcoverde
Letícia Arcoverde
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