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BRASILIA, Brazil — Brazil's largest city of Sao Paulo has been hit by severe floods for the second time in less than a week. Local media report that six people have died in mudslides caused by heavy rain.
SAO PAULO (Dow Jones)--The pace of consumer inflation in Brazil's largest city, Sao Paulo, slowed in the four weeks ended Dec. 7, as key prices decelerated in the period, the Fipe research foundation said Wednesday.
Heavy rain brought Brazil's biggest city of Sao Paulo grinding to a halt on Tuesday and reportedly claimed the lives of six people in landslides.
(AP:SAO PAULO) Brazil's government says its economy expanded in the third quarter as the nation continues to experience robust growth after emerging from a short recession brought on by the global meltdown.
Police in Rio de Janeiro and Sao Paulo shot to death more than 11,000 suspects since 2003, and "frequently" carry out extrajudicial executions that only add to Brazil's spiral of violence, Human Rights Watch reported Tuesday.
SAO PAULO -(Dow Jones)- Brazil's economy will still grow in 2009 despite third-quarter gross domestic product figures that came in below expectations, said Planning Minister Paulo Bernardo Thursday.
More than 11,000 people have died at the hands of authorities in Rio de Janeiro and Sao Paulo since 2003. The rights group says the cities' police forces are fraught with mafia-like corruption. Reporting from Bogota, Colombia, and Sao Paulo, Brazil -- The police killing earlier this year of 22-year-old clerk and expectant father Jose Carlos Barbosa in a Rio de Janeiro slum was anything but an ...
SAO PAULO (Dow Jones)--Brazil's Central Bank bought U.S. dollars on the spot market at a snap auction Thursday for BRL1.771 per dollar, the bank said.
Owens Corning, a building materials maker, said Wednesday it would add more glass fiber knitting equipment at its factory in Rio Claro, which is northwest of Sao Paulo, Brazil.
The government of Brazil has announced it is seeking bid proposals for a 317-mile high-speed rail line linking São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro.
SAO PAULO (Dow Jones)--Brazil's general price index, known as the IGP-M, dropped 0.16% in the Nov. 21-30 period, compared with a fall of 0.10% during the Oct. 21-31 period, the private Getulio Vargas Foundation said Thursday.
SAO PAULO -(Dow Jones)- Brazilian debt and share issuance dropped 2% in the first 11 months of 2009, reflecting the slowdown triggered by the recent global economic crisis, the Brazilian Association of Financial and Capital Market Institutions, or Anbima, said Thursday.
SAO PAULO (AP) — Authorities arrested five men and one woman accused of tunneling their way to nearly $6 million over the weekend while Brazil was gripped with football fever, but detectives recovered only a tiny fraction of the stolen cash, police said Tuesday.
SAO PAULO (Dow Jones)--The Brazilian real closed slightly weaker against the U.S. dollar Thursday as risk aversion rose in afternoon trade. The real closed at BRL1.774 per dollar on the Brazilian Mercantile & Futures Exchange, or BM&F, compared with Wednesday's close of BRL1.773.
RIO DE JANEIRO, Dec. 9 (UPI) -- Police in two of Brazil's major cities, Rio de Janeiro and Sao Paulo, routinely execute criminal suspects, Human Rights Watch alleged Tuesday.
SAO PAULO (Dow Jones)--The Brazilian real opened stronger against the U.S. dollar Thursday after third quarter gross domestic data figures showed the local economy continues to pull out of recession, although not as quickly as most had forecast.
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