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From oranges and iron ore to biofuels, Brazilian exports are booming, creating a new generation of tycoons. Brazil’s millionaire club grew from 130,000 in 2006 to 190,000 last year - one of the fastest rates in the world, according to a study by the Bosto

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The research, carried out by scientists in the State of Ceara University’s (UECE) Human Biochemistry Laboratory, holds great promise for the prevention of four different kinds of dengue, UECE’s Dengue Virus Project Coordinator Maria Izabel Florindo Guedes

April 30 (Bloomberg) — Brazil’s Bovespa stock index jumped to a record after Standard & Poor’s unexpectedly raised the country’s credit rating to investment grade.

The Absa House Price Index, released last week, shows house prices still rising, but at a relatively modest 8,7% year-on-year. When you take the rate of inflation into consideration - CPIX is around 9,4% - the real return in February was slightly negative

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“Don’t tell me, for the love of God, that food is expensive because of biodiesel. Food is expensive because the world wasn’t prepared to see millions of Chinese, Indians, Africans, Brazilians and Latin Americans eat,”

Between 1970 and 2004, Florianópolis’s population tripled. So did the number of shantytowns. But the local economy grew fivefold, and incomes grew in step. Opportunity seekers, urban and rural, white collar and blue, poured in. With a hundred or so beach

(AP) A deep-water exploration area off Brazil’s coast could contain as much as 33 billion barrels of oil, the head of Brazil’s National Petroleum Agency said Monday. That would make it the world’s third-largest known oil reserve.

Residential access remains the leading stimulus in the broadband market, responsible for 87 percent of the connections, up 31.1 percent in 2007. The corporate segment has grown at slightly slower rates, representing 13 percent of all broadband subscribers

SAO PAULO, Brazil - A deep-water exploration area could contain as much as 33 billion barrels of oil, an amount that would nearly triple Brazil’s reserves and make the offshore bloc the world’s third-largest known oil reserve, a top energy official said M