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🥴 Inflation scares renewed

🥴 Inflation scares renewed

Brazil’s latest inflation data. How the PIX instant payment system is hurting the debit card industry. Petrobras publishes a shocking earnings report. Brazil retaliates and expels the Nicaraguan ambassador.

Gustavo Ribeiro&Fabiane Ziolla Menezes

Aug 9, 2024

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