Brazil

• Friday, August 9th 2019 - 10:41 UTC

  Brazil’s July 12-month inflation 3.22%, and below the 4.5% target

  

  Brazil's inflation rate in July was 0.19%, the lowest rate recorded for that month since 2014, the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics (IBGE) said on Thursday.

• Friday, August 9th 2019 - 10:40 UTC

  Brazil's pension reform bill could be extended to states and municipal governments

  

  Brazil’s Senate is expected to consider extending pension reform to states and municipal governments as it moves to vote on a bill overhauling the social security system, lawmakers said on Thursday.

• Friday, August 9th 2019 - 10:31 UTC

  Once Brazil's richest man, Batista is again arrested on money laundering suspicion

  

  Police in Brazil on Thursday arrested Eike Batista, the charismatic mining and oil magnate who was once the country’s richest man, on suspicion of money laundering and insider trading.

• Friday, August 9th 2019 - 08:37 UTC

  Brazil rejects extradition of opponents of Turkish president Erdogan

  

  Brazil’s Supreme Court on Tuesday rejected a request for the extradition of an opponent of Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan saying there was no guarantee he would get a fair trial in Turkey.

• Friday, August 9th 2019 - 08:27 UTC

  Soybean sales in Brazil booming helped by a weaker currency and port premiums

  

  The price of Brazilian soybeans in local currency reached the highest level in almost two months, driven by a spike in port premiums for soybeans and a weaker currency, both caused by the trade dispute between China and the United States.

• Thursday, August 8th 2019 - 09:40 UTC

  End of game: Brazil considers tech companies like Google and Facebook as media companies

  

  A Brazilian agency which sets the commercial rules of the advertising market has approved a resolution to classify technology companies like Google and Facebook as media companies, a move which could subject digital platforms to the same rules faced by other media.

• Thursday, August 8th 2019 - 06:58 UTC

  Auto production in Brazil jumps, but exports to Argentina are down 38.4%

  

  Automobile production in Brazil jumped 14.2% and sales grew 9.1% in July from June, the best performance for the month since 2014, the national automakers’ association Anfavea said on Tuesday.

• Wednesday, August 7th 2019 - 08:30 UTC

  Brazilian police in major operation against the country's most powerful gang

  

  Brazilian police on Tuesday carried out a major operation against the First Capital Command (PCC) gang, in the latest attempt to try to hobble the country’s most powerful and sophisticated organized crime group.

• Wednesday, August 7th 2019 - 08:20 UTC

  Brazilian drug dealer who failed in attempt to escape dressed as his daughter, found dead in his cell 

  

  Prison authorities in Brazil have found convicted drug dealer Clauvino da Silva dead in his cell, three days after an elaborate escape was foiled. Prison officials said it appeared that Silva had hanged himself.

• Tuesday, August 6th 2019 - 12:55 UTC

  No end in Brazil to controversy, while deforestation continues: 67% increase over the same period last year

  

  Deforestation in Brazil's rainforest has jumped around 67% in the first seven months of the year, according to preliminary data from Brazil's space research agency, which the government has attacked as misleading and harmful to the national interest.