Despite Argentina’s dire straits, the country’s largest brewer managed to get a pledge from its Brazilian competitor to buy it out at a future date and price.
Category: Brazil
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The Real Risk in Brazil
Financial markets are beginning to panic because Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, the veteran candidate of the Workers Party, might win Brazil’s October presidential elections. In fact, the markets and […]
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Ending the Consumer Credit Drought
For years, personal credit in Mexico and Brazil was outrageously expensive and near impossible to obtain. Declining interest and inflation rates are changing that. Non-banks are lending where traditional banks fear to tread.
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How to Live with Risk and Volatility
A culture of risk management is taking hold in Latin America, particularly in Brazil and Mexico, where the products offered and their use are increasingly like those in developed markets.
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Sovereign Report
Brazil Pays Up International investors responded tepidly at first to Brazil’s latest $1 billion eight-year global bond in April, led by bookrunners JP Morgan Securities and Morgan Stanley. Brazilian authorities […]
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Soverign Report
Brazil Floats Dollar and Euro Issues Shortly after Moody’s Investors Service upgraded Brazil’s foreign currency rating outlook to positive from stable in March, the country issued $1.25 billion-worth of six-year […]
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Opportunity Knocks
With the conditions set for major reorganization among Brazilian companies, investment bankers expect a rash of corporate restructurings and consolidations.
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Political Amazons
Women still play a secondary role in Brazilian politics, but this is changing. Marta Matarazzo Suplicy is the second woman to run the city of São Paulo, the largest in […]
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Putting Power Into Exports
Brazil is a master at churning out vast quantities of commodities but its companies need to find a way to boost the volume and value of exports.
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Sharks and Minnows
Brazil’s biggest banks are gobbling up smaller competitors at a fierce pace and foreigners are eyeing the bait as well. Still, the country remains underbanked.