Brazilian president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva launched his run off presidential campaign leading his opponent Geraldo Alckmin by eight points according to the latest public opinion polls released Saturday
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The accumulated investment of Latinamerican companies in China reached 56.9 billion US dollars at the end of last year according to data released by the official news agency Xinhua in Beijing.
Brazilian government owned oil giant Petrobras confirmed this week the existence of light crude and natural gas deposits in the Santos Basin, 280 kilometers offshore Rio do Janeiro, located under a thick layer of salt at a depth of 2.140 meters.
European Union business organizations claimed Thursday Argentina, Brazil, Chile and Paraguay were among the countries most involved in falsifying trade marks and manufacturing falsified products.
The United States economy will experience a slight slow down as the once-surging housing market cools but overall growth will soon bounce back, White House economic adviser Al Hubbard said on Thursday.
Oil prices settled above 60 US dollars a barrel Thursday on expectations that OPEC would soon cut its output in a million barrels per day, though much will depend on what attitude Saudi Arabia adopts.
Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke said Wednesday inflation in United Sates is still too high and anticipated a substantial correction in the housing market.
The collapse of a closed system (or a totalitarian regime) does not automatically lead to an open society,” George Soros, the internationally renowned investor and philanthropist told an international audience at the Organization of American States (OAS) meeting Wednesday in Managua.
Nicaragua announced Wednesday plans to build a waterway linking the Pacific and Atlantic that would carry bigger ships than the existing Panama Canal.