Brazil

• Saturday, September 22nd 2018 - 08:24 UTC

  Bolsonaro reprimands his chief economic advisor over new taxes controversy

  

  The key economic adviser to Brazil's leading presidential candidate cancelled two campaign events on Friday amid a disagreement with his boss. Market-friendly Paulo Guedes, the main adviser of far-right candidate Jair Bolsonaro, canceled events at the American Chamber of Commerce and broker XP Investimentos in Sao Paulo.

• Saturday, September 22nd 2018 - 06:49 UTC

  Police arrests alleged leading Hezbollah financier in the triple border of Argentina, Brazil and Paraguay

  

  Brazilian police on Friday arrested a Lebanese citizen on suspicions of raising funds for Lebanon-based Shiite military group Hezbollah, which the United States considers a terrorist group.

• Saturday, September 22nd 2018 - 06:37 UTC

  Bolsonaro expects to be discharged from hospital, “God willing” at the end of the month

  

  Brazil's right-wing presidential candidate Jair Bolsonaro said in a video released Friday that he expects to leave hospital before the end of the month after he was stabbed in the abdomen two weeks ago.

• Friday, September 21st 2018 - 09:23 UTC

  Bolsonaro undergoes further surgery to drain liquid from abdomen

  

  Brazilian extreme right presidential candidate Jain Bolsonaro, who was stabbed during a political rally over a week ago and has since been under intensive care in the Albert Einstein hospital in Sao Paulo, had to undergo another emergency invasive intervention following high fever and accumulation of liquid in his abdomen.

• Friday, September 21st 2018 - 08:42 UTC

  Brazil stocks lower but the Real currency recovered against the US dollar

  

  Brazil stocks were lower after the close on Thursday, as losses in the real estate, industrial and financial sectors sectors led shares lower. At the close in Sao Paulo, the Bovespa index lost 0.01%.

• Thursday, September 20th 2018 - 08:42 UTC

  WTO deeply concerned with US/China trade dispute: both sides have “significant” ammunition

  

  The trade dispute between the United States and China could well expand into other areas given the significant “ammunition” the two countries have, the director-general of the World Trade Organization (WTO) said on Wednesday.

• Thursday, September 20th 2018 - 08:37 UTC

  Brazil leaves interest rates unchanged, as long as inflation remains in target range

  

  The Brazilian central bank on Wednesday held interest rates at an all-time low despite a currency selloff, as widely anticipated, but said it could “gradually” raise them in the future if inflation expectations spike.

• Thursday, September 20th 2018 - 08:32 UTC

  US supplants Brazil as leading supplier of soybeans to the European Union

  

  The United States has supplanted Brazil as the European Union's top supplier of soybeans since a deal in July with President Donald Trump to avert a trade war, according to EU data seen by Reuters on Thursday.

• Thursday, September 20th 2018 - 08:21 UTC

  Datafolha poll shows Bolsonaro and Haddad leading ahead of Brazilian election

  

  Far-right candidate Jair Bolsonaro gained ground over his rivals in the first round of Brazil’s presidential election set for Oct. 7, a new poll showed on Thursday, though it remains unclear who he will face in an expected run-off vote on Oct. 28.

• Wednesday, September 19th 2018 - 09:06 UTC

  Haddad pledges no pardon for imprisoned Lula da Silva, if he is elected president

  

  Brazil's leftist presidential candidate Fernando Haddad on Tuesday ruled out pardoning the jailed former head of state and his own party's iconic leader Lula da Silva should he triumph in October's elections.