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The Shell-Cosan joint venture wants to fire its board, cut capital, and split in two. A hedge fund manager raised its stake days before the vote.
Contracts can limit, but not prevent, the damage from the US terrorist designations of Brazil's largest gangs.
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.
Output, sales, and investment plans are falling together, and the machinery makers that industrial policy was meant to revive are faring worse
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.
Brazil's first wine yearbook shows a sector spreading far beyond its southern cradle, but Brazilians still drink mostly from bottles from other countries.
Brazil's demand for gasoline and ethanol is headed for decline, analysts agree. They differ only on when.
Brazilian companies are crossing into Paraguay for lower taxes, cheaper payroll and a more stable regulatory framework
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.
Argentina and Brazil are both retendering their freight networks this year. Neither process requires the trains to cross.
In June, 9.1 million Brazilian companies were behind on their bills, the most since records began.
Washington treated Pix, Brazil's instant payment system, as a trade barrier. Beijing treated it as a payment rail worth plugging into
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.
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.
The new US tariff wall against Brazil is in force. We look at which sectors take the hit, beyond the headline numbers.
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.
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.
Retail shares remain hostage to Brazil's sky-high interest rates.
Two of Latin America's largest state oil companies have decided to work together.
Luxury once clustered in Brazil's biggest cities. But the rise of an agricultural elite has pushed brands to look elsewhere.
Economists project Brazilian retail could generate BRL 4.32 billion because of this year’s FIFA World Cup, a 6.5% increase from the 2022 tournament
Brazilian businessman Nelson Tanure made a career out of investing in risky, distressed assets in various sectors. Now he is under investigation for alleged ties to the Banco Master scandal
Squeezed by costlier capital and shareholder demands for faster results, Brazilian companies are churning through chief executives
Brazilians are increasingly dependent on riskier (and more expensive) credit, chipping away at financial well-being and feeding a vicious economic cycle
Brazil's tax reform promises to simplify how companies pay taxes — with one notable exception: exporters.
