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Re: Brazil

Postby behappyalways » Sat Jul 30, 2016 2:43 pm

史冬鵬被人嘔到一身
往清洗失行李
中國奧運隊巴西遇劫
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Re: Brazil

Postby behappyalways » Tue Aug 02, 2016 4:40 pm

污染沒改善 水如糞水 泳灘沙粒有毒
里約空氣差 呼吸也成問題
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Re: Brazil

Postby behappyalways » Wed Aug 03, 2016 3:05 pm

里約籌備工作史上最差 IOC對新興國起戒心 
非洲 印度 難圓主辦奧運夢
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Re: Brazil

Postby behappyalways » Fri Aug 12, 2016 5:38 pm

《奧運背後》巴西監獄迫爆 250囚犯迫1個監倉
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Re: Brazil

Postby behappyalways » Sat Aug 20, 2016 1:00 pm

Brazil’s economy: The only way is up

The recession rages on. But there are incipient signs of recovery


FOR many Brazilians, the high point of the Olympic games in Rio de Janeiro came in the rain-drenched Engenhão stadium on August 15th. That was when Thiago Braz (pictured) won an unexpected gold medal, and set an Olympic record, in pole vaulting.

Brazil’s beaten-down economy is nowhere near performing a feat that would remind anyone of Mr Braz’s jump. But it may be starting to pick itself back up.

The signs are still tentative. Manufacturers are investing again: imports of capital goods were 18% higher in dollar terms in June than in the same month last year, the first year-on-year rise since September 2014.

Industrial production increased in June for the fourth consecutive month after two years of nearly uninterrupted decline. Firms’ stocks of unsold goods are starting to shrink, and the number of lorries on motorways has stopped falling.

Firms are not yet ready to hire more people, says Arthur Carvalho of Morgan Stanley, a bank, but firings have slowed. That is making consumers less glum; one consumer-confidence index rose for the third straight month in July. After repeatedly reducing its growth forecasts, the IMF recently revised upward its projection for GDP next year.

It now expects a modest expansion of 0.5% in 2017; in April the Fund was predicting no growth. Some private-sector economists expect the growth rate to be as high as 2% next year.

Much of the encouragement is coming from Brasília, the capital, which seems to be moving towards a resolution of the country’s prolonged political crisis. On August 25th the senate is due to begin the impeachment trial of Dilma Rousseff, Brazil’s unpopular president, on charges that she tampered with government accounts.

Although she denies this, few observers doubt that she will be removed from office, probably in September. The vice-president, Michel Temer, who has been acting president since May, would then serve out the remaining 28 months of her term.

He has lifted spirits just by not being Ms Rousseff. The stockmarket has boomed since he took charge (see chart). More pro-business than the left-wing president and wilier in dealing with congress, Mr Temer promises confidence-boosting reforms. A bill to open up deep-sea oilfields to more private investment is making its way through congress.

Another would oblige the environmental regulator to decide on licences for projects within ten months; this can now take years, investors grumble. On August 25th the government will present a list of state-owned firms it wants to privatise. The real’s sharp decline since 2011 makes Brazil’s exports more competitive, another spur to optimism.

None of this means that the economy is yet in good shape. Household incomes are still falling and the unemployment rate is expected to rise by another percentage point, to around 12%, before it starts to dip sometime next year. Lenders and borrowers are still behaving cautiously.

A privatisation of the Goiás state energy utility, planned for August 19th, was cancelled because it failed to attract bids from nervous investors. GDP data to be released this month are likely to show that the economy continued to contract sharply in the second quarter of this year.

To keep confidence alive, Mr Temer must reduce the budget deficit, now an alarming 10% of GDP. Otherwise, high interest rates will continue to depress growth or inflation will surge. Mr Temer wants to amend the constitution to freeze government spending in real terms and to reform overgenerous pensions.

So far, though, he has ramped up spending. He cajoled congress to relax Ms Rousseff’s target for this year’s primary deficit (before interest payments) from 1% of GDP to 2.5%. He accepted big public-sector pay rises and gave federal debt relief to Brazil’s bankrupt states.

Mr Temer’s aides say generosity now will buy political support for fiscal reforms once Ms Rousseff is removed from office. The markets believe this: the cost of insuring against default on government bonds has dropped (see chart). But the cheers will fade unless Mr Temer clears the high bar he has set for himself and the country.

Source: The Economist
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Re: Brazil

Postby winston » Thu Aug 25, 2016 8:34 am

3 Brazil Stocks to Buy Now for Post-Olympic Gains

You can win with Brazil stocks, even after the Olympics

By Dana Blankenhorn

Source: Investor Place

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Re: Brazil

Postby winston » Fri Oct 21, 2016 9:08 am

Why the world's best performing market has 23% upside today

Source: Daily Crux

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Re: Brazil

Postby winston » Sun Oct 23, 2016 8:02 am

Bottom-Fishing in Brazil

By Eric Fry

For one thing, commodity prices have bounced a bit during the last two months. That’s very helpful. If this trend continues, Brazil’s downward economic trajectory is likely to reverse and spark an enduring stock market rally.

Second, based on almost any valuation metric, stock prices are very depressed. In absolute numbers, the Brazilian Ibovespa Index is trading 70% below its 2011 high. Falling earnings account for some of that drop, but falling valuations on those earnings are also to blame.


Source: The Non-Dollar Report

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Re: Brazil

Postby winston » Sun Oct 23, 2016 8:32 am

Brazilian stocks on the rise... sector fund EWZ hits a fresh 52-week high.
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Re: Brazil

Postby behappyalways » Sun Nov 20, 2016 12:21 pm

Brazil: Four dead after police helicopter 'shot down by gang'
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