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AFP via Yahoo! News - 27 minutes ago
England striker Peter Crouch believes this week's friendly against five-time World Cup winners Brazil will provide a true test of the team's progress under Italian manager Fabio Capello.
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UPI - Tue Nov 10, 8:48 am ET
JERUSALEM, Nov. 10 (UPI) -- Israel President Shimon Peres has embarked on a state visit to Brazil and Argentina, accompanied by an entourage of Israeli businessmen, his office said.
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Market Watch - Mon Nov 9, 4:10 pm ET
Equities across Latin America rally Monday, with Brazil's benchmark up nearly 3% as resource-related stocks surge and an outlook for economic growth moves higher.
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Bloomberg - Mon Nov 9, 2:21 pm ET
Nov. 9 (Bloomberg) -- Brazil’s current account deficit may almost double in 2010 and reach the widest since 1998 as a local currency rally boosts imports amid a consumer-led economic recovery, a central bank survey shows.
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Bloomberg - Mon Nov 9, 9:34 am ET
Nov. 9 (Bloomberg) -- Brazil’s current account deficit may almost double in 2010, a central bank survey shows, as the local currency’s rally fuels imports and makes exports more expensive.
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Goal.com via Yahoo! Sports - Tue Nov 10, 5:11 am ET
The Chelsea midfielder believes England can match Brazil in terms of talent. Well, in four out of eleven positions anyway...
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LA Observed - Mon Nov 9, 3:38 am ET
Los Angeles can't even prevent illegal billboards from going up — mainly because City Hall don't really want to — but in Brazil, Sao Paulo has become what may be...
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DTN / The Progressive Farmer - 2 hours 55 minutes ago
Some Brazilian motorists who fuel their cars only on sugarcane-based ethanol are switching back to gasoline in response to high sugar prices that have now made the biofuel more costly in some states, according to Reuters.
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Bloomberg - 1 hour 39 minutes ago
Nov. 10 (Bloomberg) -- Brazil’s Bovespa index , poised for its best annual advance since 2003, may gain another 21 percent to a record by the end of next year as profits rise and a global recovery boosts Latin American economies, Citigroup Inc. said.
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Bloomberg - Mon Nov 9, 6:04 am ET
Nov. 9 (Bloomberg) -- Michael Spence , former dean of the Stanford University Business School and co-winner of the 2001 Nobel Prize in economics, told O Estado de S. Paulo that Brazil shouldn’t let markets dictate its foreign-exchange rate.
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Bloomberg - 2 hours 47 minutes ago
Nov. 10 (Bloomberg) -- Sugar output in Brazil’s Center South, the world’s largest producing region, fell in the second half of October after rain hampered harvesting, industry association Unica said.
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WTSP-TV Tampa - 2 hours 56 minutes ago
SAO PAULO (AP) — The Brazilian university that expelled a woman after she wore a short, pink dress to class backed down Monday and reinstated her after a flood of negative reactions throughout a nation where skimpy attire is common.
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Bloomberg - Tue Nov 10, 10:04 am ET
Nov. 10 (Bloomberg) -- Brazil’s Bovespa index may reach 80,000 by the end of 2010, Geoffrey Dennis, a New York-based analyst at Citigroup Global Markets, wrote in an e-mailed report today. Mexico’s Bolsa index will rise to 33,000 by the end of next year, he said.
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Bloomberg - Mon Nov 9, 5:04 pm ET
Nov. 9 (Bloomberg) -- Brazilian stocks rose to a two-week high as commodities gained after the Group of 20 nations agreed to maintain stimulus measures and analysts increased their forecasts for growth in Latin America’s biggest economy.
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Bloomberg - Tue Nov 10, 9:34 am ET
Nov. 10 (Bloomberg) -- Sugar output in Brazil’s Center South, the world’s largest producing region, fell 13 percent in the second half of October after rains hampered harvesting, industry association Unica said.