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Bloomberg - Fri Nov 20, 8:04 am ET
Nov. 20 (Bloomberg) -- Ford Motor Co. will invest 4 billion reais ($2.3 billion) in Brazil for the next five years, O Estado de Sao Paulo reported , without saying where it got the information.
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Bloomberg - Wed Nov 18, 4:36 pm ET
Nov. 18 (Bloomberg) -- Brazil will begin taxing the American depositary receipts of Brazilian companies in a bid to prevent investors from shifting out of the local stock market, Finance Minister Guido Mantega told reporters in Brasilia.
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INO News - Thu Nov 19, 5:27 am ET
SAO PAULO (Dow Jones)--Buoyed by strong consumer spending, Brazil's economy will stage a robust economic recovery in 2010 following a 2008-09 recession, according to a special report Thursday by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development.
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NBC26 Green Bay - Sat Nov 21, 11:06 am ET
BRASILIA, Brazil (AP) - Famed 101-year-old Brazilian architect Oscar Niemeyer is reportedly back at work just weeks after surgery for gallstones and an intestinal tumor.
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Marketwire via Yahoo! Finance - Thu Nov 19, 8:00 am ET
SUNNYVALE, CA and NOIDA, INDIA--(Marketwire - 11/19/09) - HCL Technologies Ltd. (HCL), a leading global IT services provider, today announced the official opening of a new world-class, Global IT development center in Sao Leopoldo, Brazil, expanding its global footprint. This center complements HCL's operations in Sao Paulo and will offer a range of services including Enterprise Application ...
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CBS 6 Richmond - Sat Nov 21, 4:59 am ET
FILE - In this Thursday, Oct. 15, 2009 file photo Ferrari F1 driver Kimi Raikkonen, of Finland, looks on during a press conference in Sao Paulo, Brazil. The Brazilian F1 Grand Pix will be held on Oct. 18 in Sao Paulo.
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Nasdaq - Fri Nov 20, 1:03 pm ET
SAO PAULO -(Dow Jones)- Brazilian federal and state governments will offer tax incentives to the Brazilian unit of Ford Motor Co. (F) in a package designed to encourage investment in expansion of capacity, the governor of Bahia state said Friday in a radio interview.
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The Forex Market - Thu Nov 19, 10:53 am ET
SAO PAULO (Dow Jones)--Moody's Investors Service expects Brazil's gross domestic product to grow as much as 1% this year and 4.5% next year, an economist for the rating agency said in a report Thursday.
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INO News - Thu Nov 19, 5:45 am ET
SAO PAULO (Dow Jones)--Brazil's general price index, known as the IGP-M, was up 0.09% in the Oct. 21 to Nov. 10 period, compared with an increase of 0.04% during the Sept. 21 to Oct. 10 period, the private Getulio Vargas Foundation said Thursday.
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The Forex Market - Wed Nov 18, 3:38 pm ET
SAO PAULO (Dow Jones)--Brazil stocks closed lower Wednesday after new highs for the year failed to stick, once surprisingly poor U.S. building permits data were released to the market.
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Nasdaq - Thu Nov 19, 2:32 pm ET
SAO PAULO -(Dow Jones)- The Inter-American Development Bank approved of a $3 billion conditional credit line with Brazilian small and mid-sized businesses on Thursday.
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The Forex Market - Thu Nov 19, 1:53 pm ET
SAO PAULO (Dow Jones)--The Brazilian real closed weaker again Thursday as investors continue to mine the latest U.S. data for clues about economic growth in the world's biggest market.
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Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance - Wed Nov 18, 11:12 am ET
IRVINE, Calif. & SAO PAULO----Genetic testing for predicting the risk of male or female hair loss in men and women is now available in Brazil thanks to a distribution agreement announced today by pharmacogenomics research and development innovator PharmaGenoma, Inc. and its subsidiary HairDX, LLC.
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AFP via Yahoo! News - Thu Nov 19, 5:17 am ET
Audiences wept at the first screening of a movie charting the rise of Brazil's President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva from a childhood of poverty to a union leader on the verge of glittering political career.
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The Durango Herald - Wed Nov 18, 2:32 am ET
SAO PAULO - Blackouts that darkened much of Brazil last week were caused by short circuits in a power substation that prompted the shutdown of three key transmission lines from the planet's second-largest hydroelectric dam, officials said Monday.