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Brazil Front-Runners Fail the Street Test Six Months Before Vote
(Bloomberg) — Near-empty demonstrations organized by the right and the left across Brazil this past weekend showed that neither side…
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Can the World Feed Itself? Historic Fertilizer Crunch Threatens Food Security
(Bloomberg) — For the first time ever, farmers the world over — all at the same time — are testing…
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Brazil dams: 1 million live close to danger | DW | 29.04.2022
Around 1 million people in Brazil live near a dangerous dam, according to a DW analysis. The situation raises alarm…
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JBS Eyes Growing Halal Food Market With Middle East Expansion
(Bloomberg) — JBS SA, the world’s largest meat supplier, is expanding in the Middle East and North Africa, buying two…
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Can Brazil Find an Answer for Fake News?
(Bloomberg Opinion) — This is one of a series of interviews by Bloomberg Opinion columnists on how to solve the…
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‘In Bald Guy We Trust’: A Currency Analyst Goes Viral in Brazil
(Bloomberg) — Robin Brooks speaks in the sober monotones of a Ph.D. economist who’s dedicated much of his career to…
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The Amazon Rainforest Can’t Survive 4 More Years Of Brazil’s Far-Right President
Since taking office in 2019, far-right Brazil President Jair Bolsonaro has presided over record levels of deforestation in the Amazon…
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U.S. Bond Market Wipeout Hands Windfall to Brazilian Hedge Funds
(Bloomberg) — Brazilian traders know inflation. After decades of dealing with wild bouts of it, they consider themselves experts on…
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The $120 Billion Global Grain Trade Is Being Redrawn by Russia’s War in Ukraine
(Bloomberg) — Across Ukraine’s farm belt, silos are bursting with 15 million tons of corn from the autumn harvest, most of which should have been…
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Biden’s Ambitious Global Climate Agenda Is In Peril. Can He Save It?
Last April, President Joe Biden convened dozens of world leaders for a “virtual climate summit” that sought to generate more…
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Billionaire Family Cashes In on 83% Rally by Aluminum Producer
(Bloomberg) — Votorantim SA, the industrial conglomerate owned by the billionaire Ermirio de Moraes family, is planning to pocket some…
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Chicken Price-Fixing Prosecution Ends in Second Mistrial
(Bloomberg) — Jurors in Denver deadlocked for the second time in the trial of 10 chicken company executives accused of…
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Oil Giants Hunt for That One Last Big Hit Along Coast of Brazil
(Bloomberg) — If an energy transition is underway around the world, it hasn’t reached the streets of Ilha da Conceicao,…
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USWNT’s win less about perfection and more about passing crucial tests
Watching the United States women’s national team is an exercise akin to finding flaws in the Sistine Chapel. On most…
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U.S. Exceeds 500,000 Deaths; U.K. Has Opening Plan: Virus Update
(Bloomberg) — A half-million Americans are now dead as a result of the novel coronavirus that first hit U.S. shores…
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