Brazil

• Tuesday, May 14th 2019 - 09:45 UTC

  Brazil's Real slides past 4.00 to the US dollar as China/US trade dispute escalates

  

  Brazil’s Real weakened past 4.00 per dollar for the first time in three weeks on Monday as an escalation in the U.S.-China trade war sent emerging markets reeling and a weekly snapshot of domestic growth forecasts fell to a new 2019 low.

• Tuesday, May 14th 2019 - 09:44 UTC

  Brazilian chief Raoni on a European tour to counter growing threats to Amazon

  

  Brazil's legendary indigenous chief Raoni arrived in Paris on Sunday for the start of a three-week tour across Europe where he will meet heads of state, celebrities and the Pope to highlight growing threats to the Amazon.

• Tuesday, May 14th 2019 - 09:21 UTC

  Ford assets in Brazil to be acquired by Chinese businesspeople

  

  The founder of Brazilian automaker CAOA said on Monday he is negotiating with Chinese business executives to make a joint acquisition of a Ford Motor Co plant near Sao Paulo.

• Tuesday, May 14th 2019 - 08:45 UTC

  Brazil will ban violent foreign fans from the Copa America next month

  

  Copa America hosts Brazil will stop known violent foreign fans from entering the country for the South American football tournament starting next month, officials said on Monday. Troublesome supporters identified by border control and immigration officers will be turned back, the justice and public security ministry said. The order takes immediate effect.

• Saturday, May 11th 2019 - 09:58 UTC

  Bolsonaro's new guns decree questioned by the Supreme Court and Congress

  

  A Brazilian supreme court judge said Friday that President Jair Bolsonaro and his Justice Ministry had five days to respond to opposition assertions that a recently passed gun decree was unconstitutional.

• Saturday, May 11th 2019 - 09:50 UTC

  Brazil's chicken exporter confident about future operations in Europe, Arab countries and China

  

  Brazil's BRF SA, the world’s largest chicken exporter, believes Europe could lift an embargo affecting a dozen of its plants sooner than anticipated because of the global meat supply imbalance deriving from a deadly hog disease in China.

• Saturday, May 11th 2019 - 09:03 UTC

  Inflation in Brazil peaks to an annualized 4.9% during April

  

  Annual consumer price inflation in Brazil rose to 4.9% in April, government statistics agency IBGE said on Friday, the highest in over two years and further above the central bank's end-year target of 4.25%.

• Friday, May 10th 2019 - 09:58 UTC

  Ex president Temer turned himself to the police in Sao Paulo

  

  Brazil's ex-president Michel Temer handed himself into police in Sao Paulo on Thursday, the day after a court ordered his return to prison. Temer, 78, arrived at federal police headquarters in Sao Paulo in a convoy of vehicles, two hours before a deadline.

• Friday, May 10th 2019 - 09:57 UTC

  Brazil confident of a Mercosur/EU trade accord in coming weeks

  

  The European Union and Mercosur will likely close a trade agreement in the near future, Brazil’s Foreign Trade Secretary Lucas Ferraz said in an interview with Bloomberg. “We’ve never been so close,” Ferraz said adding, “we’ve advanced more in four months than in 20 years”.

• Friday, May 10th 2019 - 09:57 UTC

  Developers rush to supply electricity to Brazilian state that depends on Venezuelan power

  

  Developers have presented more than 150 proposals for power plants ahead of an auction this month to supply electricity to the Brazilian state of Roraima, which has struggled with a rash of blackouts due to reliance on the shaky Venezuelan power grid.