Tag: Brazil

• 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.

• Wednesday, September 19th 2018 - 08:44 UTC

  Brazilian farmers encouraged by moisture conditions to plant soy and corn

  

  Brazilian farmers sped up soy and corn plantings this week for the country’s next grain crop, under favorable weather conditions and a positive market outlook, despite a sharp fall in soybean futures in Chicago on Tuesday. Soybean planting in Brazil’s second-largest producing state of Paraná reached 9% of the expected final area this week, up 8 percentage points from last week and compared to only 1 percent at this time last year, as ample soil moisture allowed for a quick start of fieldwork.

• Wednesday, September 19th 2018 - 08:37 UTC

  Brazilian customs impound US$ 16 million from son of African dictator

  

  The tiny West African state of Equatorial Guinea on Tuesday demanded Brazil hand back more than US$ 16m in cash and luxury watches that border officials confiscated from a delegation accompanying the president's son. Foreign Minister Simeon Oyono Esono Angue denounced the seizure as “paltry and unfriendly behavior” and demanded the items be returned, state television TVGE said.

• Wednesday, September 19th 2018 - 08:28 UTC

  Brazilian economy recovering at snail pace: 1.19% in seven months of 2018

  

  Brazil's economy grew 0.57% in July from June, Brazil's Central Bank said citing the Economic Activity Index (IBC-Br). The data shows a second consecutive month of GDP growth in South America's largest economy.

• Wednesday, September 19th 2018 - 08:18 UTC

  Brazilian Bovespa market index up 1.75%; Real suffers a slight depreciation

  

  Brazil's benchmark Bovespa index rose 1.75% on Tuesday, rallying for a second straight day largely on a spike in commodities prices. Two of the Bovespa's most heavily weighted equities, miner Vale and oil giant Petrobras benefited from rising commodity prices worldwide amid escalating China-U.S. trade tensions and signals OPEC is not prepared to raise output to address shrinking supplies from Iran.

• Tuesday, September 18th 2018 - 08:23 UTC

  Brazil's presidential race polarizing between Bolsonaro and Haddad, according to latest poll

  

  Brazilian far-right presidential candidate Jair Bolsonaro held a solid lead ahead of the October 7 election following a near-fatal stabbing, but Workers Party (PT) candidate Fernando Haddad emerged in second place, signaling a potential polarized right-left runoff, a poll showed on Monday.

• Monday, September 17th 2018 - 09:13 UTC

  Bolsonaro sends message from hospital bed and accuses rival PT of willing to win through fraud

  

  Brazilian far-right presidential candidate Jair Bolsonaro attacked the rival Workers Party (PT) and raised the prospect of voter fraud in an address on Sunday from his hospital bed in Sao Paulo, where he is recovering from an assassination attempt.

• Saturday, September 15th 2018 - 08:50 UTC

  Bolsonaro and Lula's candidate most probably will be in the October 28 runoff

  

  Brazil’s far-right presidential candidate Jair Bolsonaro, in intensive care after being stabbed at a campaign rally, kept his first-round lead in an election opinion poll on Friday, but a leftist rival from the Workers Party (PT) made solid gains.

• Saturday, September 15th 2018 - 08:46 UTC

  Brazilian markets and currency ended the week higher

  

  Brazilian markets ticked higher on Friday, bolstered by a new presidential election poll, sending the benchmark Bovespa index up more than 1% as the country's currency, the real, gained about 0.78%.