Sao Paulo set for opener as Brazil gets first IRL race
CBS Sports - Wed Nov 25, 10:23 pm ETThe Indy Racing League will open its 2010 season on the streets of Sao Paulo, the first time the IndyCar series has held a race in Brazil.
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Brazil: 'Gringos' must pay to stop Amazon razing
WXOW 19 La Crosse - Fri Nov 27, 9:01 am ETBrazil's president said that "gringos" should pay Amazon nations to prevent deforestation, insisting rich Western nations have caused much more past environmental destruction than the loggers and farmers who cut and burn...
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Volkswagen Aims to Invest 6.2 Billion Reais in Brazil (Update1)
Bloomberg - Thu Nov 26, 7:49 pm ETNov. 26 (Bloomberg) -- Volkswagen AG , Europe’s largest automaker, plans to invest 6.2 billion reais ($3.55 billion) in Brazil from 2010 to 2014 as sales in Latin America’s largest economy rise to a record.
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DRI Corporation Announces Electronic Information Display Systems Order for Rail Project in Brazil
Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance - Tue Nov 24, 9:05 am ETDALLAS----DRI Corporation , a digital communications technology leader in the global surface transportation and transit security markets, announced today that its Sweden-based Mobitec AB subsidiary, through its Mobitec Brazil Ltda business unit in Brazil, has received an order of strategic significance for electronic information display systems from Bombardier for a rail project in Sao Paulo ...
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Brazil Posted 1 Billion-Real October Budget Deficit (Update1)
Bloomberg - Thu Nov 26, 8:49 am ETNov. 26 (Bloomberg) -- Brazil posted a budget deficit of 1 billion reais ($578 million) in October, the central bank said in a report distributed today in Brasilia.
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Geisy Arruda, Brazilian Miniskirt Student, Will Parade In Carnival
The Huffington Post - Fri Nov 27, 11:40 am ETWhat's Your Reaction? SAO BERNARDO DO CAMPO, Brazil — Brazilians will be seeing a whole lot more of the student whose short pink dress got her booted from college: She's agreed to march in the nation's famously flesh-baring Carnival parades.
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Brazil Posted 1 Billion Real October Budget Deficit (Update2)
Bloomberg - Thu Nov 26, 12:04 pm ETNov. 26 (Bloomberg) -- Brazil posted a budget deficit for a 12th straight month in October as the government increased spending and cut taxes in a bid to stoke growth in Latin America’s biggest economy.
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Brazil Real ‘Most Overvalued’ Currency, Goldman Says (Update3)
Bloomberg - Wed Nov 25, 3:52 pm ETNov. 25 (Bloomberg) -- Brazil’s real is the “most overvalued” currency as a “wall of money” coming into Latin America’s biggest economy may overwhelm government efforts to curb its rally, said Goldman Sachs Group Inc.
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Brazil's National Debt Falls On Higher Tax Revenue
Nasdaq - Mon Nov 23, 1:02 pm ETSAO PAULO -(Dow Jones)- Brazil's net public sector debt declined in October as the government paid down bonds from rising tax revenue, the Brazilian Treasury said Monday in a statement.
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Volkswagen to invest $3.5 billion in Brazil
AP via Yahoo! News - Fri Nov 27, 3:53 am ETGermany's Volkswagen AG on Friday announced plans to invest euro2.3 billion ($3.5 billion) in Brazil and said it hopes to be building a million vehicles a year in the country by 2014.
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Brazil Cuts Taxes to Spur Consumption, Help Factories (Update2)
Bloomberg - Wed Nov 25, 2:19 pm ETNov. 25 (Bloomberg) -- Brazil cut sales taxes on furniture and extended a measure to lower taxes on construction materials in a bid to spur consumption and help factories and builders.
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Brazil's Government Forecasts Exports At $168B In 2010
The Forex Market - Tue Nov 24, 10:23 am ETSAO PAULO (Dow Jones)--Brazil will post exports totaling $168 billion in 2010, the Trade and Development Ministry said Tuesday in a press release. So far this year, Brazil's exports totaled $134.7 billion for a surplus of $22.95 billion.
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Brazil Stocks Climb as Dubai Debt Concerns Ease; Duratex Gains
Bloomberg - 21 minutes agoNov. 27 (Bloomberg) -- Brazilian stocks rose, rebounding from the biggest drop in two weeks, on speculation Dubai’s debt crisis will be limited to the Gulf emirate.
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Brazil Tax Revenue Rises In October As Economy Rebounds
Nasdaq - Mon Nov 23, 9:47 am ETSAO PAULO -(Dow Jones)- Brazil tax receipts rose in October for the first time in 11 months following one of the worst global recessions in a generation.
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Brazil Eases Furniture Tax, Extends Construction Cuts (Update1)
Bloomberg - Wed Nov 25, 1:34 pm ETNov. 25 (Bloomberg) -- Brazil’s government lowered taxes on furniture sales and extended an earlier cut to levies on construction materials a day after it maintained a temporary break on some new vehicles.
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Brazil: ‘Gringos’ must pay to save Amazon
MSNBC - Fri Nov 27, 10:08 am ETBrazil's president says "gringos" should pay Amazon nations to prevent deforestation, insisting Western nations have caused more past environmental destruction than loggers.
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Major drought in Brazil worsens
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Hospital ship plugs health gap in Brazil's Amazon
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