Brazil

• Thursday, November 26th 2020 - 08:40 UTC

  Brazil renews wheat import quota free of tariff, from outside Mercosur

  

  Brazil's Chamber of Foreign Trade (Camex) has renewed the import quota of 750,000 tons of wheat from outside Mercosur and exempt of the Common External Tariff (TEC) currently at 10%. Purchases can be made from Novr 18 this year to November 17, 2021.

• Thursday, November 26th 2020 - 08:25 UTC

  At least 41 people killed in a crash of a bus and a truck in Sao Paulo

  

  At least 41 people were killed and 10 injured on Wednesday when a bus and a truck crashed in southeastern Brazil, police said. The bus, which was carrying employees on their way to work at a textile factory, collided with the truck just before 7 am on a motorway outside the town of Taguai, in Sao Paulo state, police said.

• Wednesday, November 25th 2020 - 09:06 UTC

  Brazil on track to end recession early 2021, as private activity speeds up

  

  Brazil’s economy probably rebounded at a record quarterly pace in July-September and was on track for a better start to 2021 than previously thought, as businesses and households recovered from the first surge in COVID-19 cases.

• Monday, November 23rd 2020 - 09:16 UTC

  Brazil will sign non-binding letters of intent for Covid-19 vaccines with four companies and Russia's sovereign fund

  

  Brazil's health ministry said on Sunday it will sign non-binding letters of intent to purchase coronavirus vaccines from four companies and Russia's sovereign wealth fund, adding that any purchase will depend on the approval of the nation's regulators.

• Monday, November 23rd 2020 - 09:10 UTC

  Brazil denies racism but the Porto Alegre incident when a black man was beaten to death shows something different

  

  Emotions were running high on Saturday at the funeral of a black Brazilian man beaten to death by white security guards in an assault that sparked protests across the country.

• Saturday, November 21st 2020 - 09:15 UTC

  Protests in main Brazilian cities as security guards beat to death a black man at a Carrefour supermarket

  

  More than 1,000 demonstrators attacked a Carrefour Brasil supermarket in the southern Brazilian city of Porto Alegre on Friday after security guards beat to death a Black man at the store.

• Saturday, November 21st 2020 - 08:56 UTC

  Brazil planning an 80% resumption of daily flights during December

  

  Brazil’s average daily flights fell from the original 2,500 to about 200 during the Covid-19 pandemic lockdown period. In the months with the highest surge of the pandemic, Brazilian airlines reduced their operations by 99%.

• Saturday, November 21st 2020 - 08:49 UTC

  US soybeans futures hit a four year high on dry conditions in key South American crop areas

  

  U.S. soybean futures rose for a sixth consecutive session on Friday and hit a four-year high on dry conditions in key South American crop areas and concerns about dwindling U.S. supplies. Corn also gained on strong exports and worries about South American dryness, while wheat ended mixed.

• Friday, November 20th 2020 - 09:17 UTC

  Brazilian indigenous groups exposed to coronavirus and swarms of illegal gold miners

  

  The coronavirus has spread rapidly through the Yanomami indigenous reservation in northern Brazil and more than a third of its 27,000 people could have been exposed, according to a report produced by their leaders.

• Thursday, November 19th 2020 - 09:34 UTC

  Pfizer offers Brazil millions of doses of Covid-19 vaccine; record acceleration of contagion in the country

  

  Pfizer Inc said on Wednesday it had offered to provide Brazil with millions of doses of a COVID-19 vaccine in the first half of 2021, amid evidence the coronavirus is spreading more rapidly in South America's largest country.