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    • Sunday, 7 August, 2022
      Bolsonaro bets improving Brazilian economy will be election boon

      Voters rank economy above crime and corruption as the most important issue

    • Thursday, 14 July, 2022
      Brazilian politics
      Brazil to turn on spending taps in run-up to presidential vote

      Extra welfare payments worth billions could boost Bolsonaro’s re-election prospects

    • Tuesday, 21 June, 2022
      Nubank
      Brazil’s Nubank plots consolidation in Latin America’s booming fintech sector

      Chief executive says digital lender is on the hunt for bargain acquisitions

    • Thursday, 9 June, 2022
      Brazilian politics
      Lula would scrap Brazil’s public spending cap, says draft manifesto

      Leftwing ex-president to give state a bigger role in investment if he beats Bolsonaro in October election

    • Thursday, 2 June, 2022
      Weak economic outlook clouds Bolsonaro’s election prospects in Brazil

      Economists warn strong first-quarter growth unlikely to continue

    • Monday, 16 May, 2022
      Global inflation
      Inflation returns to haunt Brazilians

      Memories of the 1980s and 1990s loom as prices rise at the fastest pace in two decades

    • Thursday, 21 April, 2022
      JBS SA
      Meatpacker JBS comes under fire over 50% emissions rise

      Environmental study finds Brazilian company’s carbon footprint is larger than all of Italy

    • Monday, 18 April, 2022
      News in-depthAgricultural production
      ‘Destructive hunger’: South America’s farmers seek to head off global food crisis

      Supply problems and rising costs make it difficult to replace lost agricultural output caused by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine

    • Tuesday, 5 April, 2022
      Special ReportThe Americas’ Fastest Growing Companies
      FT ranking: The Americas’ Fastest-Growing Companies 2022

      A medtech business leads the field of 500 companies, knocking a fintech lender off the top spot

    • Tuesday, 22 March, 2022
      Inside BusinessMichael Pooler
      Petrobras becomes a political football in upcoming Brazilian elections

      Big price rises for petrol, diesel and cooking gas spark anger from both Bolsonaro and Lula

    • Wednesday, 16 March, 2022
      Brazil forecast to raise interest rates further in effort to tame inflation

      Economists expect a rise on Wednesday and Selic to hit 12.75 per cent by end of the year

    • Friday, 4 February, 2022
      Brazil’s stock market buoyed by country’s shifting political landscape

      Tightening monetary cycle and a resurgent Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva offer investors cause for optimism

    • Thursday, 16 December, 2021
      Brazil expels IMF office over growth forecasts

      Fund will no longer have a representative in the country after criticism by finance minister

    • Thursday, 2 December, 2021
      Brazil enters recession as inflation grips economy

      Third-quarter GDP contracts 0.1% in sign of how recovery has lost momentum

    • Tuesday, 16 November, 2021
      High inflation returns to Brazil: ‘each week there are different prices’

      Rising costs ripple throughout the economy as Bolsonaro government grapples with the political fallout

    • Monday, 1 November, 2021
      The FT ViewThe editorial board
      Jair Bolsonaro’s faults go well beyond the pandemic

      Brazil’s far-right leader will be remembered for bungling the economy too

    • Wednesday, 27 October, 2021
      Brazil reveals biggest rate rise in almost 20 years

      Central bank steps up tightening with sixth consecutive increase to fight soaring inflation

    • Friday, 22 October, 2021
      Brazilian politics
      Brazil economy officials quit and investors unnerved by welfare spending plans

      Departures of high-ranking aides come amid market unease on fiscal discipline

    • Wednesday, 22 September, 2021
      Brazil raises rates as it struggles to tame inflation

      Central bank expects similar 100bp increase next month in battle against runaway prices

    • Sunday, 5 September, 2021
      Brazil suspends beef exports to China after cases of mad cow disease

      World’s biggest producer says no risk to humans after confirming ‘atypical’ incidents in two states

    • Tuesday, 31 August, 2021
      News in-depth
      Brazil’s post-pandemic recovery threatened by inflation and rising rates

      Annual growth estimates for Latin America’s largest economy downgraded as drought and looming election also bite

    • Wednesday, 18 August, 2021
      News in-depthClimate Capital
      Weather shocks in Brazil ripple across global commodities markets

      Products from coffee to oranges affected by drought and chilly temperatures

    • Monday, 26 July, 2021
      The Big Read
      Can a new commodities boom revive Brazil?

      The country has become one of the leading producers of foodstuffs, but traditional manufacturing is in steep decline

    • Wednesday, 16 June, 2021
      Brazil moves to tame inflation with third 2021 rate increase

      Policymakers signal another rise likely with price pressures ‘greater than expected’

    • Tuesday, 1 June, 2021
      Brazil’s GDP surges back to pre-pandemic levels

      Rate of economic expansion beats expectations and spurs hopes of a faster recovery

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