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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.
Police in Brazil's two-largest metropolitan areas have killed 11,000 people since 2003, many of them extrajudicial executions that were later covered up by officers, Human Rights Watch said in a report released Tuesday in Rio de Janeiro.
A report released by Human Rights Watch raises questions about the number of police killings in Brazil, suggesting that many could be extrajudicial.
Dec. 9 (Bloomberg) -- Brazil’s economy may expand at the fastest pace in four years in the third quarter and at a “similar” pace in the last three months of the year, Finance Minister Guido Mantega said.
RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Police in Rio de Janeiro and Sao Paulo have killed more than 11,000 people in the past six years, many execution-style, according to a report released Tuesday by Human Rights Watch.
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,...
Authorities say they have dismantled a U.S. visa scam in Brazil that raked in about $53 million from 4,500 victims since 2002. Eleven suspects were arrested in four Brazilian states.
Dec. 9 (Bloomberg) -- Brazil’s benchmark Bovespa stock index may climb to a record 80,000 next year as company earnings jump and investor demand pushes valuations above the historical average, HSBC Global Asset Management said.
Dec. 8 (Bloomberg) -- Brazil’s real weakened for the third day as an unexpected drop in German industrial production fueled concern that the global economic recovery may be slow.
Human Rights Watch said Tuesday that Brazilian police in Rio de Janeiro and Sao Paulo routinely resort to “lethal force, often committing extrajudicial executions and exacerbating violence in both states.”
Dec. 8 (Bloomberg) -- Brazil’s real weakened for the third day as an unexpected drop in German industrial production fueled concern that the global economic recovery may be slow.
Brazil's presidential spokesman has reiterated that the country does not plan to recognize the incoming Honduran administration and denied that Brazil's president and chief of staff have made contradictory statements about the Central American nation's elections.
Brazil's presidential spokesman has reiterated that the country does not plan to recognize the incoming Honduran administration and denied that Brazil's president and chief of staff have made contradictory statements about the Central American nation's elections.
As demand recovers after Brazil’s first recession since 2003 -- helped by public spending, tax cuts and lower borrowing costs -- investment in new capacity rebounded too slowly to guarantee near-term supply, according to Morgan Stanley and Credit Agricole SA. Quickening inflation and rising interest rates may slow gains in the benchmark Bovespa index from 80 percent this year to less than 30 ...
SAO PAULO (AP) - At least 20 people have died in mudslides triggered by heavy rains across southern Brazil as rivers rose to rooftops and thousands were left homeless Friday.
Brazil's presidential spokesman has reiterated that the country does not plan to recognize the incoming Honduran administration and denied that Brazil's president and chief of staff have made contradictory statements about...
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