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Brazil Business
Oct 21, 2026
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6 min read
Contracts can limit, but not prevent, the damage from the US terrorist designations of Brazil's largest gangs.
Oct 14, 2026
7 min read
Five months into the Mercosur-EU trade agreement, Brazilian sales to the European Union are booming. Much of the growth came from goods Europe never taxed, while the sectors the deal was built for are stalling or blocked.
Oct 7, 2026
Output, sales, and investment plans are falling together, and the machinery makers that industrial policy was meant to revive are faring worse
Sep 30, 2026
Reported talks to buy a British digital bank would give Nubank a shortcut into Europe — but at a price its own shareholders find hard to swallow.
Sep 23, 2026
Brazil's first wine yearbook shows a sector spreading far beyond its southern cradle, but Brazilians still drink mostly from bottles from other countries.
Sep 16, 2026
5 min read
Brazil's demand for gasoline and ethanol is headed for decline, analysts agree. They differ only on when.
Sep 9, 2026
Brazilian companies are crossing into Paraguay for lower taxes, cheaper payroll and a more stable regulatory framework
Sep 2, 2026
Brazil's 2017 labor reform made suing an employer a riskier endeavor. The courts undid it piece by piece, and the flood of lawsuits returned.
Aug 26, 2026
Argentina and Brazil are both retendering their freight networks this year. Neither process requires the trains to cross.
Aug 19, 2026
In June, 9.1 million Brazilian companies were behind on their bills, the most since records began.
Aug 12, 2026
Washington treated Pix, Brazil's instant payment system, as a trade barrier. Beijing treated it as a payment rail worth plugging into
Aug 5, 2026
Tecon 10 in Santos will massively increase the capacity of Latin America's busiest port. It has also become a proxy fight over antitrust doctrine and presidential authority.
Jul 29, 2026
A US tariff shock has Brazil reaching for industrial policy again — the same tool it's used for a century, usually without a deadline attached.
Jul 22, 2026
8 min read
The new US tariff wall against Brazil is in force. We look at which sectors take the hit, beyond the headline numbers.
Jul 15, 2026
A pension fund's revolt, a chairman's abrupt exit and a secret mine visit have turned Vale's board into a battlefield, even as its earnings keep climbing.
Jul 8, 2026
Data centers' energy demand could jump 11-fold by 2030. A surplus of clean power is a selling point for Brazil — delivering it is the problem.
