New and returning players are pouring billions into Brazil’s food delivery market, hoping to chip away at iFood’s dominance.
Chinese investment in Brazil doubled in 2024, with capital increasingly spread across smaller projects, particularly in the energy and oil sectors.
Brazil’s solar boom has boosted capacity but put strain on the grid, cutting flexibility and raising overload risks regulators are scrambling to fix.
Chinese miner MMG recently purchased Anglo American’s nickel mines in Brazil — a deal being thrust into a larger geopolitical dispute over critical minerals.
As Brazil’s markets grow and diversify, the underfunded CVM faces staff shortages, budget gaps and pressure for sweeping reform.
Paraná is moving to privatize its state-owned IT company. Privacy watchdogs say the plan risks exposing sensitive information.
The US is the largest source of foreign direct investment in Brazil. Will a trade crisis between the two countries affect this longstanding history?
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.
Political and trade disputes with the US could renew the Brazilian government’s push to launch a new tax for Big Tech companies.
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
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.
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.
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.
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
For decades Brazil has discussed how to regulate the role of lobbyists. A bill has made some progress in Congress, but questions around transparency are still under debate
Doing business in Brazil is getting less complicated, but the country still has a long way to go, a new report finds
A Chinese startup is trying to facilitate money flows between China and Brazil — providing infrastructure it says will mimic Brazil’s instant payment service, Pix.
A new wave of digital offers is bringing more and more Brazilians to investment-based products, and many new investors might not even realize they are investing
Brazilian startup GigU clashed with Uber in courts over its driver earnings optimization app. Now the company is aiming at gig workers in the US
A crisis in a mid-sized bank is prompting calls for changes to Brazil's deposit insurance system, pitting large financial corporations against fintech upstarts
Mayor Eduardo Paes announces plans to turn Rio into Latin America’s biggest data center hub. The early stage pitch will face some hurdles
Brazil is experiencing one of the lowest unemployment rates in its history — yet that hasn't translated into greater approval for the government. A new study suggests a deeper, structural decline in job quality over the past decade may explain the disconnect
The escalating trade war is prompting Brazil to diversify its foreign trade. Africa could be a good place to find opportunities
Brazilian planemaker Embraer is betting on Europe's surging defense spending to expand orders for its two military aircraft
Despite mounting public debt, exemptions receive little scrutiny from political or economic elites — and now account for 7% of the Brazilian GDP
