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Brazil is one of the so-called BRIC nations, an investment term denoting Brazil, Russia, India and China. This used to have great growth connotations for investors, but as you can tell by the past...
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ThinkstockYou would think that the auction of an oil field with as much as 15 billion barrels of oil in place would attract a lot of attention. Well it did attract some demonstrations against giving...
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Being an investor in emerging markets is supposed to come with great growth opportunities as the local populations begin the purchase and consumption of more and more goods and services outside of...
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ThinkstockGold prices may have just plummeted by double-digits — the biggest percent sell-off in four decades — but some of the world’s central banks are still buying up large amounts of the...
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ThinkstockBrazil is the world’s largest producer of ethanol, which the country’s producers make from sugar cane stalks. The bad news is that lower petroleum prices have cut demand for ethanol and...
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Petroleo Brasileiro SAShares of Petroleo Brasileiros SA (NYSE: PBR), known as Petrobras, are up more than 5% this morning following a wholesale price hike on diesel fuel in Brazil. The...
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Petroleo Brasileiro SABrazil’s state-controlled energy giant Petroleo Brazileiro SA (NYSE: PBR), better known as Petrobras, had its best quarter in nearly two years in the first quarter of 2012....
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The newly installed head of Brazil’s national petroleum regulatory agency (ANP) has said that the country’s probable reserves could double from 15 billion to 30 billion barrels in the near future...
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China, India, and Brazil represent the strongest market opportunities for smartphone makers for the period form 2012 through 2016. International Data Corp. (IDC) says that China, which has overtaken...
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Petroleo Brasileiro SAThe world’s fifth largest oil company, Petroleo Brasileiro SA, or Petrobras, (NYSE: PBR) has its up days and its down days. Today is one of those downers. The Brazilian oil...
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It seems that all of the nations around the world are facing sovereign credit ratings downgrades or warnings of downgrades. After the United States lost its prized “AAA” rating, the threat of...
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Brazil’s Petroleo Brasileiro SA (NYSE: PBR), commonly called Petrobras, has approved a plan it announced last September to spend $224.7 billion developing an estimated 5 billion barrels of...
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The price of many agricultural commodities rose more than 25% from June 2010 to December 2010, according to a recent World Bank study. There are several reasons that the report is alarming. The first...
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Shares in Exxon Mobil Corp. (NYSE: XOM) posted a new 52-week high of $76.62 yesterday, up about 11% in the past year. That’s not bad growth for the largest company in the US by market cap,...
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