Brazil

  • Dec 8, 2022
  • 2 min read

Welfare spending looks set to pass Brazil Congress

The Senate yesterday approved an increase in the spending cap for 2023 and 2024, which now goes to the Lower House

Brazil
  • Dec 2, 2022
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Brazil growth will slow from third-quarter results

GDP expanded by 0.4% quarter-on-quarter and 3.6% year-on-year in the third quarter, according to the statistics agency

Brazil
  • Dec 1, 2022
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Uruguay isolated in trade talks plans outside Mercosur

Three Mercosur members have warned the fourth, Uruguay, over its plans for bilateral trade talks outside the bloc

Mercosur
  • Nov 30, 2022
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Brazil Congress backs crypto bill as Centrao cemented

The Lower House yesterday adopted a bill regulating "virtual assets" as its speaker looks set for re-election

Brazil
  • Nov 28, 2022
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Brazil's Bolsonaro reappears but remains silent

The president appeared in public for the first time in nearly a month, at a ceremony at a military academy

Brazil
  • Nov 24, 2022
  • 7 min read

Prospects for Brazil in 2023

President-elect Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva takes office on January 1 with a sprawling coalition and strong opposition

Brazil
  • Nov 23, 2022
  • 2 min read

Bolsonaro party seeks to overturn Brazil run-off

After a long silence, the president's party has called for the votes cast in 280,000 voting machines to be discounted

Brazil
  • Nov 21, 2022
  • 2 min read

Goldfajn will opt for continuity as IDB president

Brazilian candidate Ilan Goldfajn was elected the new president of the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) yesterday

Latin America