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 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 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 - 2 hours 30 minutes agoBrazil'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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The PlayStation 2 officially launches… in Brazil?
Geek.com - Mon Nov 23, 10:13 am ETBook a vacation to the sunny beaches of São Paulo and if you can somehow train your mind to peer past the shrouding veil of be-thonged Brazilian rollerbladers, you will actually see a thriving video gaming economy. Brazil is filled with native gamers and hundreds of shops across the country purvey to them. Name a [...]
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U.S. Policy on Honduras Puts Latin Ties at Risk, Brazilian Says
New York Times - Wed Nov 25, 10:19 pm ETThe foreign policy adviser to President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva of Brazil said Washington should not recognize the coming presidential election in Honduras.
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Citigroup Denies Brazil Was Offered Stake During Credit Crisis
Bloomberg - Thu Nov 26, 4:14 pm ETNov. 26 (Bloomberg) -- Citigroup Inc., the bank owned 34 percent by the U.S. government, said it didn’t offer Brazil a stake in the company amid the credit crisis.
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Brazil Soybeans May Be Hurt by Asian Crop Disease, Agency Says
Bloomberg - Fri Nov 27, 6:05 am ETNov. 27 (Bloomberg) -- Brazil’s soybean output may be hurt next year after a fungal disease known as Asian Rust infected plants at an earlier stage than usual in the season, a government researcher said.
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Obama writes to Brazil's Lula about Iran, Honduras
EARTHtimes.org - Wed Nov 25, 4:41 pm ETBrasilia - US President Barack Obama wrote a letter to his Brazilian counterpart Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva to express his concern about the situation in Iran and Honduras, officials said Wednesday. The letter was sent Sunday, a day before Iranian Pre...
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Brazil Energy Consumption Still Below 2008, Government Data Show
Nasdaq - Tue Nov 24, 11:02 am ETSAO PAULO -(Dow Jones)- Brazilian energy consumption is on the rise, but still 1.1% below where it was in October of last year, according to data released Tuesday by the government's Energy Research Company, EPE.
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Brazil GDP to Grow 6.1 Percent in 2010, Bradesco Says (Update1)
Bloomberg - Thu Nov 26, 2:49 pm ETNov. 26 (Bloomberg) -- Brazil’s economy will grow 6.1 percent in 2010, bolstered by rising domestic demand, increasing exports and higher investment, according to Banco Bradesco SA, the country’s second-largest bank by market value.
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Jobs, economics complicate Brazil's crackdown on Amazon destruction
Minneapolis-St. Paul Star Tribune - 2 hours 36 minutes agoNOVO PROGRESSO, Brazil - Drawing his .40-caliber pistol, Severiano Pontes dashes across the steaming, muddy jungle floor, a hunch telling him what he would find around a bend.
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Jobs, economics complicate Brazil's Amazon fight
Newsday - Fri Nov 27, 9:06 am ETJobs, economics complicate Brazil's crackdown on Amazon destruction
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Volkswagen to invest $3.5 billion in Brazil
Detroit News - Fri Nov 27, 7:29 am ETFrankfurt -- Germany's Volkswagen AG today announced plans to invest $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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Iran's Ahmadinejad meets with Brazil's President Lula
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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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