Your essential guide to the largest economy in Latin America.
Brazil Business
Oct 1, 2025
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3 min read
⛏️ Mining strategy
Critical minerals are become increasingly tangled in geopolitics and could come to the negotiating table amid Brazil’s trade talks with the US
Brazil Business
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
Brazil Business
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.
Brazil Business
Sep 10, 2025
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3 min read
🇨🇳 From Beijing with billions
Chinese investment in Brazil doubled in 2024, with capital increasingly spread across smaller projects, particularly in the energy and oil sectors.
Brazil Business
Sep 3, 2025
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2 min read
⚡ Brazil’s energy paradox
Brazil’s solar boom has boosted capacity but put strain on the grid, cutting flexibility and raising overload risks regulators are scrambling to fix.
Brazil Business
Aug 27, 2025
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4 min read
⛏️ Nickel deal
Chinese miner MMG recently purchased Anglo American’s nickel mines in Brazil — a deal being thrust into a larger geopolitical dispute over critical minerals.
Brazil Business
Aug 20, 2025
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3 min read
🔍 Securities scrutiny
As Brazil’s markets grow and diversify, the underfunded CVM faces staff shortages, budget gaps and pressure for sweeping reform.
Brazil Business
Aug 13, 2025
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4 min read
💾 Public data going private
Paraná is moving to privatize its state-owned IT company. Privacy watchdogs say the plan risks exposing sensitive information.
Brazil Business
Aug 6, 2025
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5 min read
💰 Investment backlash
The US is the largest source of foreign direct investment in Brazil. Will a trade crisis between the two countries affect this longstanding history?
Brazil Business
Jul 30, 2025
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3 min read
😱 Trade shock, right ahead!
As the US prepares steep tariffs on Brazilian goods, we explore what’s at stake. Plus, the fresh US sanctions on a Supreme Court justice.
Brazil Business
Jul 23, 2025
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3 min read
📱 Big tax for Big Tech?
Political and trade disputes with the US could renew the Brazilian government’s push to launch a new tax for Big Tech companies.
Brazil Business
Jul 16, 2025
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4 min read
✈️ Turbulence ahead
Brazilian planemaker Embraer could see a hit rivaling its Covid downturn if the US follows through with 50% tariffs on Brazilian imports, its CEO warns
Brazil Business
Jul 9, 2025
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3 min read
🏦 More market access
New regulations will make Brazilian capital markets more accessible to small and mid-size companies, encouraging more equity offerings and debt issuances for businesses in earlier stages of growth.
Brazil Business
Jul 2, 2025
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3 min read
💻 Tech for tax
Simplifying Brazil’s highly complex tax system will demand major technological adaptation from the government and companies, in a process that will need to be accomplished while legislators are still working out the new framework’s rules.
Brazil Business
Jun 25, 2025
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5 min read
💵 Doing the welfare math
The Lula administration is raising the alarm over the expansion of payments of a social benefit for poor retirees and people with disabilities. Some of the growth, however, was down to the government’s own policies.
Brazil Business
Jun 18, 2025
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4 min read
🧲 Can Brazil join the race for rare earths?
With one of the world’s largest reserves and a wave of new projects underway, Brazil could play a strategic role in reshaping global supply chains
