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Market Roundup: Corporate financing via capital market breaks record
Capital market operations and instruments accounted for 42.4 percent of Brazilian companies' consolidated debt in 2023, double that of a decade ago
3 weeks ago • Fabiane Ziolla Menezes
Politics
Congress, Supreme Court battle on immunity rules
Congress and the Supreme Court are at each other's throats on most issues. The rules governing how elected officials can be prosecuted and tried are the latest example
3 weeks ago • Cedê Silva
Economy
Once a major exporter, Brazil seeks cocoa self-sufficiency
Record prices reached this week are also the basis for the sale of cocoa in the Brazilian market, the world's fifth-largest chocolate consumer
3 weeks ago • Fabiane Ziolla Menezes
Economy
Low-cost airlines drive international growth in Latin America
Bureaucracy, high taxes, and judicialization explain the still low number of connections by airlines in the region, especially with Brazil
3 weeks ago • Fabiane Ziolla Menezes
Society
Healthy food hard to come by in Brazil’s favelas
A new study shows that residents of favelas have significantly less financial and physical access to healthy food, and ultraprocessed meals have taken the place of fresh ingredients
3 weeks ago • Euan Marshall
Guide to Brazil
Ipanema Beach named second best beach on the planet
Having cultivated iconic status throughout Rio de Janeiro's modern history, Ipanema Beach is one of the most celebrated strips of sand in all of Brazil — and renowned travel guide Lonely Planet agrees
3 weeks ago • Euan Marshall
Politics
Supreme Court rules out putschist interpretation of Constitution
Brazil’s Supreme Court on Monday formed a 6-0 majority to disallow a putschist interpretation of Article 142 of the Constitution, which deals with the role of the country’s Armed Forces
3 weeks ago • Cedê Silva
Opinion
Is Brazil going too far to curb AI-generated disinformation?
Brazil's top electoral board has approved a resolution mandating swift action from platforms, imposing a level of oversight that seems unrealistic
3 weeks ago • Bruna Santos
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Brazilians’ polarization hits cartography, in new world map
4 days ago • Isabela Cruz
Politics
Brazil’s firearms debate takes a U.S. twist
1 week ago • Cedê Silva
Politics
Opinion polls show increasing power of right-wing governors
2 weeks ago • Gustavo Ribeiro and Cedê Silva
Politics
How Elon Musk joins Brazil’s online far-right
2 weeks ago • Cedê Silva
Politics
Musk probe increases the likelihood of an X ban in Brazil
2 weeks ago • Paulo Roberto Netto
Insider
Brazil’s mid-month inflation index slows down again
3 hours ago • Fabiane Ziolla Menezes
Insider
Petrobras shareholders vote to pay extraordinary dividends
22 hours ago • Cedê Silva
Insider
Despite recent advances, food insecurity worse than before 2014-2016 recession
1 day ago • Fabiane Ziolla Menezes
Insider
Brazil House passes “Taylor Swift act” against ticket scalping
1 day ago • Cedê Silva
Insider
State autonomy on gun rights advance in Brazil’s House
2 days ago • Cedê Silva
Economy
Lula’s proposal to give the tax reform some teeth
1 hour ago • Cedê Silva
Economy
Market Roundup: Brazilian startups should not be aiming for an IPO
6 days ago • Fabiane Ziolla Menezes
Economy
Brazil keen on moving fiscal goalposts
2 weeks ago • Cedê Silva
Economy
Market Roundup: Rules for betting platforms to be set in four stages
2 weeks ago • Fabiane Ziolla Menezes
Economy
March inflation a good omen for Brazilian economy
2 weeks ago • Fabiane Ziolla Menezes
Tech
Tech Roundup: Brazil’s AI-powered music revolution
4 days ago • Fabiane Ziolla Menezes
Tech
The startup helping producers comply with EU deforestation rules
1 week ago • Fabiane Ziolla Menezes
Tech
Rio wants to be the new Latin American innovation capital with Web Summit
1 week ago • Fabiane Ziolla Menezes
Tech
Tech Roundup: What to expect from Web Summit Rio 2024
2 weeks ago • Fabiane Ziolla Menezes
Tech
Tech Roundup: An inclusive fitness app lands in Brazil
3 weeks ago • Fabiane Ziolla Menezes
Society
Indigenous groups snub Lula as patience runs out
1 day ago • Euan Marshall
Society
President of Portugal calls for slave trade reparations
1 day ago • Euan Marshall
Society
Drug traffickers retake Rio territories from militias, study finds
1 week ago • Isabela Cruz
Society
A hare-raising challenge in southern Brazil as invasive species multiplies like rabbits
2 weeks ago • Euan Marshall
Society
Healthy food hard to come by in Brazil’s favelas
3 weeks ago • Euan Marshall
Environment
Affordability is the key to making EVs popular in Brazil
2 days ago • Fabiane Ziolla Menezes
Environment
What State Grid’s new power line means for Brazil’s energy transition
3 days ago • Paulo Motoryn
Environment
Petrobras is failing on Paris climate goals
1 month ago • Gustavo Ribeiro
Environment
Brazil’s coal city resists energy transition
1 month ago • André Borges
Environment
Amazon climate crisis continues with Acre floods and Roraima fires
1 month ago • Cedê Silva
Latin America
Bolivia’s economic model called into question as gas dominance wanes
5 days ago • David Feliba
Latin America
Could Ecuador’s referendum mark the birth of a new Bukele?
1 week ago • Lucas Berti
Latin America
British bank Revolut granted license in Mexico
2 weeks ago • Fabiane Ziolla Menezes
Latin America
How Nicaragua developed its own sign language
2 weeks ago • Lucas Berti
Latin America
Trade tensions rise as U.S. accuses China of using Mexico as backdoor
3 weeks ago • David Feliba
Opinion
How Brazil plans to use the G20 to be a climate leader
3 days ago • Bruna Santos
Opinion
The future of X in Brazil, under Elon Musk
1 week ago • Andre Pagliarini
Opinion
AI and data protection in the spotlight at Global Privacy Summit
2 weeks ago • Marcela Mattiuzzo and Paula Pedigoni Ponce
Opinion
The future of nuclear power in Brazil’s diversified energy infrastructure
3 weeks ago • Jennifer Eaglin
Opinion
Is Brazil going too far to curb AI-generated disinformation?
3 weeks ago • Bruna Santos