The Swiss bank is starting a new business that will help investors capitalize on reduced property prices after a two-year recession, the firm’s Brazil chief executive officer, Sylvia Coutinho, said in an interview in Sao Paulo. Specialized consultancy Real Estate Capital will work exclusively with the team, and REC CEO ... Read More »

RIO DE JANEIRO — Brazilian police have recommended that U.S. swimmers Ryan Lochte and Jimmy Feigen be indicted on charges of falsely reporting a crime in Rio de Janeiro, Federal Police of Brazil told ABC News. A Brazilian police official told The Associated Press that Lochte fabricated a story about ... Read More »

The stagnation of the credit market in Brazil has prompted credit information services company Experian to invest in technology innovation to reinvest its business in the country. In Brazil, Experian is the result of a merger with local credit analysis firm Serasa, acquired in 2007. Things are quite different now ... Read More »

After a dismal earnings report, Norwegian energy company Statoil said it secured a stake in an oil basin off the coast of Brazil from the nation’s oil company. “Through this acquisition, we are accessing a world class asset, and we strengthen our position in Brazil, one of Statoil’s core areas ... Read More »

New studies indicates the Zika virus turned into circulating in Haiti months earlier than Brazil’s firstinstances have been mentioned remaining spring. “We recognise that the virus was found in Haiti in December of 2014,” stated Dr. Glenn Morris, director ofuniversity of Florida’s emerging Pathogens Institute. “And, primarily based on molecular ... Read More »

Brazil’s lower house of Congress will decide on Sunday whether to recommend impeaching President Dilma Rousseff on charges of manipulating budgetary accounts, in a vote that could hasten the end of 13 years of leftist Workers Party rule. The political crisis, which comes amid Brazil’s worst recession since the 1930s, ... Read More »