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Brazil’s Embraer: PS. We are under investigation
Ever wondered how to break it to your shareholders that your company is under investigation by the US Securities and Exchange Commission for corruption? Well, Embraer decided to opt for the more...
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Brazilian agriculture: no man’s land
While Brazil looks forward to its future as an agricultural power, many of its rural areas continue to be marred by violent conflicts over land that have continued unchecked from one decade to the...
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Brazil’s economy: still two-speed
Just when we thought the two-speed element of Brazil’s economy was coming to an end, new credit numbers have come out that show the consumer is still racing along. Even as industrial output has gone...
View ArticleBrazil: Auto loans feel the heat
Brazil’s central bank has released figures for October showing the highest vehicle loan default rate in two years. As reported by Bloomberg: Default rates on cars, motorcycles and trucks in October...
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Brazil: Lupi under fire and out the door
Brazilian labour minister Carlos Lupi’s now infamous words – that you would have to shoot him to get him out of his position – finally seem to have backfired. His claim that as a large man, it would...
View ArticleMexico gives go-ahead to Latam exchange fusion
Bolsa Mexicana de Valores (BMV), the Mexican Stock Exchange, has signed a letter of intent to join the exchanges of Colombia, Peru and Chile in what is Latin America’s first stock market tie-up. The...
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Brazil: more ministers walk the plank
Brazil’s seemingly endless corruption sweep has two more ministers in its sights – the minister of cities, Mario Negromonte, and more significantly, minister of trade and industry, Fernando Pimentel....
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Vale: big ship springs big leak
We’ve all been there. You buy something on the cheap made in China or South Korea, but as soon as you get home it breaks. Unfortunately for Vale, Brazil’s mining giant, the same thing seems to have...
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Brazil: Euro deal exerts no charm
The Brazilian real has greeted last week’s European summit deal with about as much enthusiasm as a child being forced to eat Brussels sprouts. The Brazilian currency lost 2.5 per cent of its value...
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Brazil: a taste for dim sum
It seems that like many foreigners who visit Hong Kong, Brazilian finance officials have picked up a taste for dim sum during a visit to the Chinese territory. They have begun talking for the first...
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China eyes LatAm agribusiness
What do Peruvian fishmeal, Chilean wine and Brazilian soy beans have in common? They’re all on China’s shopping list as the nation of 1.3bn people steps up its agribusiness acquisitions and investments...
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Brazil: Dilma made out of Teflon
Brazil’s president Dilma Rousseff must have a non-stick coating. A study released on Friday by the National Confederation of Industry (CNI) found that her personal approval rating remains at 72 per...
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Brazil: Vale’s ship strategy on the rocks
They haven’t even all been built yet but it looks like Vale’s ill-fated mega-ships are already up for sale. José Carlos Martins, pictured, the mining company’s executive director for iron ore and...
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Happy 2012! Brazil’s new year bond sale
What better way to start the new year than by holding a bond sale and showing everyone who is boss. Brazil once again flaunted its enviable position in global debt markets on Tuesday by selling $750m...
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2011: A year of two halves for the real
No wonder Brazil’s finance minister, Guido Mantega, got in such a huff about the strength of the real last year, inciting a global currency war wherever he went. New data from the central bank on...
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Brazil: taxes that don’t add up
Brazil’s unwieldy tax system never ceases to amaze. A new study by the Brazilian Institute for Tax Planning (IBPT) has worked out exactly how much parents and schools have to pay in tax for the basic...
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Paccar joins the Brazil carry trade
Another year, another investment in Brazil’s truck industry. Paccar, the US-based truck maker, announced a $200m plant to build its DAF heavy vehicles in Ponta Grossa, in Brazil’s southern Paraná...
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Brazil bonds: 2012′s must-have asset?
They have got attractive yields, promising growth prospects and they’re unlikely to let you down. If you have to put your money somewhere, it might as well be in Brazilian bonds, it seems. After the...
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Banco do Brasil: borrower’s delight
On the homepage of Banco do Brasil, Brazil’s largest bank, you can take out a loan to buy a car, renovate your house or buy electronics and home appliances. Indeed, never before in Brazil has it been...
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Brazilian pension funds go global
©Bloomberg As little as a year ago, Brazil’s greatest concern was the currency war – a tsunami of international funds that it believed was threatening to inundate its financial markets and those of...
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