Brazil's July current account deficit widens well beyond forecasts to 7-year high

BRASILIA, Aug 27 (Reuters) - Brazil's current account deficit widened far more than expected in July, central bank data showed on Thursday, reaching its largest shortfall for the month in seven years as external accounts deteriorated across the board.

Brazil fines TikTok $29.8 million over processing minors' data

Brazil's data protection authority fined TikTok owner ByteDance $29.8 million for unlawfully processing personal data of children and adolescents .

Brazil’s Flavio Bolsonaro to institute debt ceiling if elected president

A debt ceiling would trigger automatic spending cuts, which conservatives could use to pare back social programmes.
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Brazil: Lula, Bolsonaro return to strongholds to launch runs for president

Lula and Bolsonaro appeal to Brazil’s women voters with promises to combat rising femicide and gender violence.

Brazil's Lula and Flávio Bolsonaro Return to Their Strongholds to Kick off Presidential Campaigns

Brazil's presidential candidates have kicked off their campaigns ahead of what is expected to be tight election in October

Blend Expands into Brazil, Accelerating Enterprise AI Adoption in Latin America

Blend360, a premier AI services provider, today announced its expansion into Brazil, establishing an in-market presence to help Brazilian enterprises turn AI ambition into measurable business outcomes across data,
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Brazil sues chat platform Discord over failure to protect child users

Lawsuit is latest instance of Brazil taking aggressive steps to rein in tech giants over child safety issues online.

MercadoLibre: The Brazil Risk Is Overblown

MercadoLibre leverages secular e-commerce and fintech tailwinds in underpenetrated LatAm for sustained revenue growth. See why I rate MELI stock a Buy.

Oncoclinicas Holder Must Make Tender Offer, Brazil Agency Says

Brazil’s securities regulator CVM ruled that US-based asset manager Centaurus Capital LP must make a tender offer for shares of Oncoclinicas do Brasil Servicos Medicos SA, overturning the regulator’s technical staff and escalating a long-running dispute among some of the cancer-care provider’s biggest shareholders.
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Brazil fines TikTok $30m for child data privacy violations

Owner ByteDance ordered to erase illegally obtained child data in Brazil as crackdown on tech giants intensifies.

Coffee Prices Erase Early Gains as Brazil’s Coffee Warehouses Fill

December arabica coffee (KCZ26 ) closed down -6.15 (-1.80%) on Tuesday, and November ICE robusta coffee (RMX26 ) closed down -111 (-2.92%). Coffee prices gave up an early advance on Tuesday and fell sharply on reports that some warehouses in Brazil are no longer accepting new coffee supplies as

Brazil election rivals offer competing cures for high long-term interest rates

BRASILIA, Aug 25 (Reuters) - Brazil's presidential campaigns are clashing over how to bring down long-term interest rates, with advisers to the leading candidates offering sharply different prescriptions for reducing borrowing costs across the economy.