By Ana Mano SAO PAULO – Fertilizer deliveries to Brazilian farmers will stabilize or fall in 2022, an executive at Norway’s Yara [YAR.OL], a major supplier, told Reuters on Thursday,…
BRASILIA – Brazil posted a lower than expected trade surplus of $5.444 billion in July, official data showed on Monday, with growth in imports again strongly outpacing that of exports.…
By Valentine Hilaire MEXICO CITY – Brazil’s central bank will hike its key rate by 50 basis points next week, a Reuters poll showed on Friday, matching an increase at…
By Gabriel Araujo SAO PAULO – Brazilian consumer prices increased slightly less than expected in the month to mid-July, the country’s statistics agency said on Tuesday, posting the lowest monthly…
BRASILIA – Brazil’s government projected a lower primary budget deficit this year, official figures showed on Friday, with a booming tax collection helping to improve the short-term fiscal balance. The…
By Marcela Ayres and Bernardo Caram BRASILIA – Economic advisers to Brazil’s leading presidential candidate are drafting plans for a more aggressive foreign exchange policy, including more market interventions and…
(Reuters) – Top fertilizer maker Nutrien Ltd on Wednesday agreed to acquire Casa do Adubo S.A., as part of its ambitions to expand its Brazilian retail business. The deal marks…
BRASILIA – Brazil’s Economy Minister Paulo Guedes said on Monday that the global economy is entering a stagflation period, which will be “much more serious” than he previously imagined. Brazil,…
BRASILIA – Brazil’s Congress on Wednesday approved a major spending package that President Jair Bolsonaro is banking on to lift his flagging re-election hopes, despite expectations it will fan double-digit…
By Lisandra Paraguassu and Gram Slattery BRASILIA – The shooting over the weekend of an official in Brazil’s leftist Workers’ Party (PT) by a supporter of right-wing President Jair Bolsonaro…
BRASILIA – Services activity in Brazil resumed growth in May and at a faster-than-expected pace, benefiting from the normalization of activities after the severe impact of the COVID-19 pandemic. The…
SAO PAULO – Brazil’s automakers association Anfavea on Friday lowered its 2022 estimates for the country’s auto industry production, with monthly output falling in June as companies grapple with auto…
BRASILIA – Economists polled by the Brazilian central bank expect the economy to perform better this year but see inflation staying above the official target until 2023, marking three consecutive…
By Ana Mano SAO PAULO – Brazil imported record volumes of potassium chloride (Kcl) from Canada in the first half of the year, a sign that domestic farmers will have…
By Gabriel Burin BUENOS AIRES – Brazil’s real is expected to firm over the next 12 months but will come under growing pressure from planned extra social spending against a…
BRASILIA – Brazil’s trade surplus reached $8.814 in June, official figures showed on Friday, below market expectations. Economists polled by Reuters had projected a $9.994 billion surplus for the month.…
SAO PAULO – Volkswagen Group workers at its Taubate plant, in the Brazilian state of Sao Paulo, approved on Wednesday an agreement allowing an investment of 1 billion reais ($192.97…
SAO PAULO – Audi, a Volkswagen Group brand, announced on Wednesday an investment of 100 million reais ($19.22 million) to restart production at its plant in Parana state in Brazil,…
SAO PAULO – Volkswagen AG is set to cut working hours and wages at its Sao Bernardo do Campo factory in Brazil as it grapples with a lack of auto…
By Ana Mano SAO PAULO – At least one unit of U.S. grain trader Cargill in Brazil’s Mato Grosso state is storing corn in open air outside silos, according to…
BRASILIA -Brazilian federal police on Saturday said they had arrested a third suspect in the murder of British journalist Dom Phillips and indigenous expert Bruno Pereira in the Amazon rainforest…
By Jake Spring and Anthony Boadle ATALAIA DO NORTE, Brazil – Six tribes from Brazil’s remote Javari Valley packed into an assembly hall on June 11 to lament the disappearance…
By Gabriel Araujo SAO PAULO – Brazil’s Natura & Co Holding SA said on Wednesday that Chief Executive and Executive Chairman Roberto Marques was stepping down in an organizational shakeup,…
BRASILIA/SAO PAULO – Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro has vetoed a Congress-passed measure that would block airlines from charging for checked baggage on their flights, his office said on Wednesday, sending…
BRASILIA – Brazil’s central government reported a better than expected primary budget surplus of 28.6 billion reais ($5.57 billion) in April, official figures showed on Tuesday, with increased tax revenue…