tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-81832032724127402602021-12-03T04:28:06.274-05:00Brazilian Business LeadersCarlos Vassallohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08219677485209103307noreply@blogger.comBlogger37125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8183203272412740260.post-13330481203261711992018-02-12T09:48:00.004-05:002018-02-12T10:28:44.271-05:00Opera Orlando - This is awesome - Sponsored Section<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-WVHegG3dtD4/WoGpMittVFI/AAAAAAAAUWc/mOb_P9bdgSEvliuUHn3ODRyzMUvnFEYmgCLcBGAs/s1600/operaorlando.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="337" data-original-width="500" height="430" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-WVHegG3dtD4/WoGpMittVFI/AAAAAAAAUWc/mOb_P9bdgSEvliuUHn3ODRyzMUvnFEYmgCLcBGAs/s640/operaorlando.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><br /><a href="https://operaorlando.org/planetm">Live interactive online opera classes to kids and teenagers across the nation. The inaugural educational series will begin March 19th and will run for ten weeks.</a> </span></div>Carlos Vassallohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08219677485209103307noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8183203272412740260.post-42160654296843448702017-07-22T15:01:00.000-04:002017-07-22T15:01:26.058-04:00Brazil Has Improved, Says Businessman Abilio Diniz After Going Public with Carrefour Retailer<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-NyeIz3NPqZU/WXOgyK9OuWI/AAAAAAAAS60/2og4Derk6AILyxesWBFskpdHYk8n6IP7wCLcBGAs/s1600/abilio.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="165" data-original-width="306" src="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-NyeIz3NPqZU/WXOgyK9OuWI/AAAAAAAAS60/2og4Derk6AILyxesWBFskpdHYk8n6IP7wCLcBGAs/s1600/abilio.jpg" /></a></div><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">On Thursday (the 20th) businessman Abilio Diniz said that Brazil is doing "much better". According to him, the country is demonstrating signs of economic recovery and he urged other entrepreneurs to "believe in the country".</span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">"We need to love our country more and we must believe in it. We can't just complain all the time. We need to do our part and businessmen have to take responsibility. We need to get the ball rolling and be at the forefront of growth. This country needs to increase its productivity."<br /><br /><a href="http://www1.folha.uol.com.br/internacional/en/business/2017/07/1903146-brazil-has-improved-says-businessman-abilio-diniz-after-going-public-with-carrefour-retailer.shtml">Read full article</a></span><br /><div><br /></div></div>Carlos Vassallohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08219677485209103307noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8183203272412740260.post-28942776541457256262016-02-24T12:12:00.000-05:002016-02-24T12:12:13.839-05:00Top Brazilian campaign strategist arrested<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-bRAP29SzDoQ/Vs3kRWmnmzI/AAAAAAAAPJ8/uBD2_cJvgxk/s1600/joaxe.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="133" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-bRAP29SzDoQ/Vs3kRWmnmzI/AAAAAAAAPJ8/uBD2_cJvgxk/s200/joaxe.jpg" width="200" /></a></div><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Sao Paulo (AFP) - Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff's former campaign strategist, Joao Santana, was arrested Tuesday in Sao Paulo after returning to Brazil to face allegations that he received payments linked to funds from a massive corruption network.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Prosecutors are investigating $7.5 million in payments to Santana in foreign bank accounts.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><a href="http://news.yahoo.com/top-brazilian-campaign-strategist-arrested-212727350.html"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Read full article</span></a><br /><div><br /></div></div>Carlos Vassallohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08219677485209103307noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8183203272412740260.post-2742335113467635662016-02-08T09:06:00.000-05:002016-02-08T09:06:35.597-05:00Gaming pays off for two teenagers<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-MJn7IlYDTIE/Vrif4PaSsRI/AAAAAAAAO3w/0wxe5eHBti0/s1600/serte.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="111" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-MJn7IlYDTIE/Vrif4PaSsRI/AAAAAAAAO3w/0wxe5eHBti0/s200/serte.jpg" width="200" /></a></div><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The mothers of Henrique Dubrugras and Pedro Franceschi aren't worrying any more.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The two Brazilian teenagers used to spend about a third of their day on screens, but for them it has more than paid off. And while there are plenty of internet entrepreneurs that start young, their story stands out.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Now aged 19, they already have a successful start-up, Pagar.me, that employs 30 people and has a multimillion-dollar annual turnover, with scholarships to Stanford University to boot.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><a href="http://www.bbc.com/news/business-34476287"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Read full article</span></a></div>Carlos Vassallohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08219677485209103307noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8183203272412740260.post-15997416474414044382016-01-28T16:23:00.000-05:002016-01-28T16:23:41.545-05:00Morning Briefing: Chubb CEO blasts Brazil’s leaders<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-nRkZ4BEuos4/VqqG18Tzq0I/AAAAAAAAOs4/Dj5C2VqEaLc/s1600/badere.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="133" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-nRkZ4BEuos4/VqqG18Tzq0I/AAAAAAAAOs4/Dj5C2VqEaLc/s200/badere.jpg" width="200" /></a></div><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">In a surprise political intervention, Evan Greenberg, CEO of Chubb Ltd., slammed the Brazilian government for the country’s economic and political paralysis.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">During a conference call Greenberg - just weeks after ACE Ltd’s takeover of Zurich-based Chubb - urged Brazilians to lay the blame for their nation’s misfortunes squarely at the feet of its leaders.</span><br /><a href="http://www.ibamag.com/news/morning-briefing-chubb-ceo-blasts-brazils-leaders-28012.aspx"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></a><a href="http://www.ibamag.com/news/morning-briefing-chubb-ceo-blasts-brazils-leaders-28012.aspx"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Read full article</span></a><br /><div><br /></div></div>Carlos Vassallohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08219677485209103307noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8183203272412740260.post-18691237629489658632015-12-28T22:01:00.000-05:002015-12-28T22:01:56.100-05:00Brazil Economists Raise 2016 Key Rate Estimate for Sixth Week<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-WWIUTm7gglY/VoH3m_4TMiI/AAAAAAAAOO0/LIP07lZ5BA0/s1600/arri.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="109" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-WWIUTm7gglY/VoH3m_4TMiI/AAAAAAAAOO0/LIP07lZ5BA0/s200/arri.jpg" width="200" /></a></div><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Brazil analysts lifted their 2016 year-end benchmark interest rate forecast for the sixth consecutive week, as the central bank reaffirms its commitment to slow inflation to target.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Policy makers will increase borrowing costs to 15.25 percent next year, compared to the previous week’s forecast of 14.75 percent, according to the weekly central bank survey of about 100 economists. Analysts expect inflation to reach 6.86 percent at the end of 2016, above the 6.5 percent upper limit of the central bank’s target range.</span><br /><a href="http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-12-28/brazil-economists-raise-2016-key-rate-estimate-for-sixth-week"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></a><a href="http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-12-28/brazil-economists-raise-2016-key-rate-estimate-for-sixth-week"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Read full article</span></a><br /><br /></div>Carlos Vassallohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08219677485209103307noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8183203272412740260.post-40369169451947457462015-12-21T11:50:00.001-05:002015-12-21T11:50:46.001-05:00Behind the Fall of Marcelo Odebrecht, Brazil’s Construction ‘Prince’<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-gzwjzbq9jug/VngtnH0IroI/AAAAAAAAOFk/AzLkfhZjOJw/s1600/chn.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="150" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-gzwjzbq9jug/VngtnH0IroI/AAAAAAAAOFk/AzLkfhZjOJw/s200/chn.jpg" width="200" /></a></div><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">RIO DE JANEIRO—Brazilian building magnate Marcelo Odebrecht was a natural choice to deliver a keynote speech at the international business school he had attended in Lausanne, Switzerland. </span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">As chief executive of Odebrecht SA, he ran Latin America’s largest construction firm with a global portfolio that included the $200 million Miami Heat stadium, a $1 billion port project in Cuba and one of Africa’s largest hydroelectric dams in Angola.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.wsj.com/articles/behind-the-fall-of-marcelo-odebrecht-brazils-construction-prince-1450406284"><br /></a></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.wsj.com/articles/behind-the-fall-of-marcelo-odebrecht-brazils-construction-prince-1450406284">Read full article</a></span><br /><div><br /></div></div>Carlos Vassallohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08219677485209103307noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8183203272412740260.post-54260888800185096452015-12-12T21:09:00.000-05:002015-12-12T21:09:22.634-05:00Business Leaders: Ricardo Semler<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-igYygFwaQ9s/VmzTSmasAYI/AAAAAAAAN7A/4GILtp024rc/s1600/richies.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-igYygFwaQ9s/VmzTSmasAYI/AAAAAAAAN7A/4GILtp024rc/s200/richies.jpg" width="200" /></a></div><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Who is Ricardo Semler?</span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Son of Brazilian immigrant entrepreneur Antonio Semler, who founded Semco, Ricardo Semler is a Brazilian and is now the CEO of Semco SA. A Harvard MBA, he joined his father’s company, Semco, and proceeded to completely re-engineer the business, from what it did to how it is run.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">He has been named Brazil’s business leader of the year twice, is vice president of the Federation of Industries of Brazil, and is a board member of SOS Atlantic Forest. Today, he is frequently found on the international speaker circuit encouraging other business people to adopt the Semler Way.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><a href="http://startups.co.uk/business-leaders-ricardo-semler/"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Read full article</span></a><br /><div><br /></div></div>Carlos Vassallohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08219677485209103307noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8183203272412740260.post-73932883375860149072015-12-05T17:30:00.002-05:002015-12-05T17:30:45.817-05:00Second wave of soccer corruption cases hits Nike allies<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-LwixCTGUS7Q/VmNlWl0cljI/AAAAAAAANrc/Ca9P1K4vbxc/s1600/nkis.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-LwixCTGUS7Q/VmNlWl0cljI/AAAAAAAANrc/Ca9P1K4vbxc/s1600/nkis.png" /></a></div><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It was one of the sports marketing deals of the century.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Nike, the world's most successful athletic footwear company, and Brazil, the world's best soccer team, in 1996 signed a landmark 10-year sponsorship deal.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Putting the Swoosh on the dazzling Brazilian team helped create what has become a $2 billion-a-year business for the Oregon sneaker giant. But it also plunged Nike into a global morass of greed, bribes and dirty backroom deals.</span><br /><a href="http://www.oregonlive.com/business/index.ssf/2015/12/second_wave_of_soccer_corrupti.html"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></a><a href="http://www.oregonlive.com/business/index.ssf/2015/12/second_wave_of_soccer_corrupti.html"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Read full article</span></a></div>Carlos Vassallohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08219677485209103307noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8183203272412740260.post-36726005416244846162015-11-29T12:54:00.000-05:002015-11-29T12:54:54.725-05:00BTG shares tumble after CEO arrested<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-i5ovYlKR1pQ/Vls74_0mM0I/AAAAAAAANek/O64DBNpzmJ8/s1600/andress.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-i5ovYlKR1pQ/Vls74_0mM0I/AAAAAAAANek/O64DBNpzmJ8/s200/andress.jpg" width="200" /></a></div><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Shares in BTG Pactual, one of Latin America's biggest investment banks, plunged by as much as 19 per cent on Wednesday following the arrest of its chief executive.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Andres Esteves, the Brazilian billionaire who transformed BTG Pactual, was arrested by Brazilian federal police early on Wednesday morning, a spokesperson for the bank confirmed, report Pan Kwan Yuk and John Paul Rathbone.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">BTG Pactual clarifies that is available to the authorities to provide all necessary explanations and will cooperate with the investigation.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The Brazilian Supreme Court said Mr Esteves was arrested in relation to the corruption probe at state-owned oil company Petrobras.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><a href="http://www.ft.com/intl/fastft/431141/btg-shares-tumble-on-ceo-arrest"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Read full article</span></a></div>Carlos Vassallohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08219677485209103307noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8183203272412740260.post-39216021230636403962015-11-23T09:50:00.000-05:002015-11-23T09:50:18.801-05:00DDB Buys Grupo ABC, Brazil's Biggest Independent Ad Group<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-aJi329KrqSA/VlMngfkIzNI/AAAAAAAANQY/jH_25oTLzPY/s1600/grupos.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-aJi329KrqSA/VlMngfkIzNI/AAAAAAAANQY/jH_25oTLzPY/s200/grupos.jpg" width="200" /></a></div><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">DDB Worldwide is buying Grupo ABC, Brazil's biggest independent advertising group with more than 2,000 employees, after a relationship that has spanned more than 17 years. The local trade press is estimating the deal at one billion reais in local currency, or about $265 million.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">"It's been a dream of ours, and mine, to unite these two businesses together," said Chuck Brymer, CEO of DDB Worldwide, part of Omnicom Group.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><a href="http://adage.com/article/ad-age-on-campus/ddb-buys-brazil-s-grupo-abc/301473/"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Read full article</span></a></div>Carlos Vassallohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08219677485209103307noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8183203272412740260.post-72737590258013982832015-10-28T19:59:00.000-04:002015-10-28T19:59:48.740-04:00The 30 Most Influential Teens of 2015<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-pWsXGjfBZ2g/VjFhXTuvRDI/AAAAAAAAM0c/Se-hvFRSRpE/s1600/iop.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-pWsXGjfBZ2g/VjFhXTuvRDI/AAAAAAAAM0c/Se-hvFRSRpE/s1600/iop.png" /></a></div><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">To determine TIME’s annual list, we consider accolades across numerous fields, global impact through social media and overall ability to drive news. Here’s who made this year’s cut (ordered from youngest to oldest):</span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Moziah Bridges, 13</span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The Memphis resident started his own bow tie business, Mo’s Bows, at age 9. Now—thanks in part to an appearance on the investment show Shark Tank—he’s running a $200,000-a-year apparel company touting licensing deals with Cole Haan and Neiman Marcus. Bridges’ latest accomplishment? Supplying bow ties to basketball players at the 2015 NBA draft. —Samantha Grossman</span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><a href="http://time.com/4081618/most-influential-teens-2015/">Read full article</a></span><br /><div><br /></div></div>Carlos Vassallohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08219677485209103307noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8183203272412740260.post-89054320889790134902015-09-14T17:10:00.001-04:002015-09-14T17:10:48.790-04:00Big business could help Brazilian president survive political storm<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-K6_G70w-rtc/Vfc3sEqWMuI/AAAAAAAAMFI/IWi_XzDOEjs/s1600/dilmas.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-K6_G70w-rtc/Vfc3sEqWMuI/AAAAAAAAMFI/IWi_XzDOEjs/s200/dilmas.jpg" width="132" /></a></div><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Brazilian business leaders may have ideological differences with struggling leftist President Dilma Rousseff, but calls for her impeachment make many of them nervous, effectively giving her support from an unexpected quarter.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The business community worries that a traumatic ouster would pile a period of deep political uncertainty onto a downturn that economists say could translate into a 2 percent contraction of the economy this year.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">That tacit support of big business and a tentative deal with a restive Senate is helping Rousseff survive a crisis just seven months into her second four-year term.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/08/18/us-brazil-rousseff-business-idUSKCN0QN0CW20150818">Read full article</a></span><br /><div><br /></div></div>Carlos Vassallohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08219677485209103307noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8183203272412740260.post-83078824559058075872015-06-22T15:38:00.002-04:002015-06-22T15:38:46.279-04:00Brazilian Real Leads Gains as Business Leaders Stand Behind Levy<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-FMHkx5xxS-o/VYhkHlpNbAI/AAAAAAAAK4U/NcB9qAG_Upw/s1600/joa.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-FMHkx5xxS-o/VYhkHlpNbAI/AAAAAAAAK4U/NcB9qAG_Upw/s1600/joa.jpg" /></a></div><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The real led major currency advances as Brazilian business leaders affirmed support for Finance Minister Joaquim Levy in his effort to reduce budget deficits and preserve the nation’s credit rating.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Brazil is moving in the right direction with Levy in the finance post, Itau Unibanco Holding SA board member Fabio Barbosa said Tuesday during an event at Bloomberg’s office in Sao Paulo. </span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The vote of confidence from the private sector comes at a critical time as President Dilma Rousseff considers vetoing a measure to increase pension benefits while a reversal of tax breaks for some industries awaits a vote in the lower house.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">“Levy has been taking the heat from politicians, and it is good that support for him comes from the market,” Reginaldo Siaca, a foreign-exchange manager at TOV Corretora de Cambio in Sao Paulo, said in a telephone interview</span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><a href="http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-06-16/brazil-real-leads-gains-as-business-leaders-affirm-levy-support"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Read full article</span></a><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>Carlos Vassallohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08219677485209103307noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8183203272412740260.post-77398018263576254022015-06-10T17:21:00.000-04:002015-06-10T17:21:11.573-04:00A false war fades: the end of Brazil-Mexico rivalry?<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-oTdU-2qtimY/VXiqHkQJ1lI/AAAAAAAAKhk/9AE5yV-HS_c/s1600/dfdfd.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="160" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-oTdU-2qtimY/VXiqHkQJ1lI/AAAAAAAAKhk/9AE5yV-HS_c/s200/dfdfd.jpg" width="200" /></a></div><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">For much of the past two decades, Brazil and Mexico seemed at times to be on a collision course. Diplomats from Latin America’s two largest nations were often preoccupied, if not obsessed, with a competition for an elusive role as regional leaders and players in the post-Cold War shifting global scene. The 2013 battle for the post of director general at the World Trade Organization, won by Brazilian diplomat Roberto Azevêdo over Mexican Herminio Blanco, a former trade minister, left plenty of hurt feelings. Ironically, the dispute for influence also led to convergence. </span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The 2011 creation of the Community of Latin American and Caribbean Nations (CELAC), proposed by Mexico to affirm its Latin American identity and counter a perceived Brazilian effort to separate it from the region, was warmly embraced in Brasília as a way project leadership by promoting formats that excluded the US.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><a href="http://blogs.ft.com/beyond-brics/2015/06/10/a-false-war-fades-the-end-of-brazil-mexico-rivalry/">Read full article</a></span><br /><div><br /></div></div>Carlos Vassallohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08219677485209103307noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8183203272412740260.post-83966556855512581772015-06-01T19:33:00.000-04:002015-06-01T19:33:07.330-04:00‘Empowering’ all-women Brazilian trade mission reorients Vancouver CEO from east to south<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-zMniDLJfQ_I/VWzrmBYnZWI/AAAAAAAAJLI/vZoPrB8qKy0/s1600/vanco.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-zMniDLJfQ_I/VWzrmBYnZWI/AAAAAAAAJLI/vZoPrB8qKy0/s1600/vanco.jpg" /></a></div><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Carolyn Cross had her eye on the South American markets for years. What the CEO of Vancouver’s Ondine Biomedical didn’t understand was how to go about tapping into those emerging economies.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">“And then I get this invitation for a trade mission,” Cross told Business in Vancouver.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The federal government’s first all-female trade mission to Brazil brought the CEO and other Canadian business leaders to São Paulo last month for four days of back-to-back meetings. </span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><a href="https://www.biv.com/article/2015/6/empowering-all-women-trade-mission-brazil-reorient/"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Read full article</span></a></div>Carlos Vassallohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08219677485209103307noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8183203272412740260.post-57615793249172572462015-05-25T13:42:00.000-04:002015-05-25T13:42:41.456-04:00China Premier Li Unveils Billions of Dollars in Financing, Trade Pacts in Brazil<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-t7VD1tcRXu0/VWNfCib6GcI/AAAAAAAAI8E/OHCwIWau6bw/s1600/dil.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-t7VD1tcRXu0/VWNfCib6GcI/AAAAAAAAI8E/OHCwIWau6bw/s1600/dil.jpg" /></a></div><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">RIO DE JANEIRO—Chinese Premier Li Keqiang kicked off a tour of South America on Tuesday by unveiling billions of dollars in financing and trade agreements for Brazil’s biggest companies, part of a broader effort to deepen ties with the region despite an economic slowdown.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The investments are largely aimed at strengthening Brazil’s aging infrastructure and at helping the commodity-dependent nation weather lower prices for metals, crude oil and other commodities. After riding the coattails of China’s breakneck growth in the last decade, Latin America’s largest economy is widely expected to fall into recession this year—partly due to softening demand from China.</span><br /><div><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div><a href="http://www.wsj.com/articles/china-premier-li-unveils-billions-of-dollars-in-financing-trade-pacts-in-brazil-1432075803"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Read full article</span></a></div></div>Carlos Vassallohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08219677485209103307noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8183203272412740260.post-33057586360153436722014-12-18T15:15:00.000-05:002014-12-18T15:15:09.093-05:00Chinese and Brazilian Leaders Exchange Congratulatory Messages to Celebrate the Successful Launch of CBERS-4 Satellite<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-DCrrECiFJvo/VJM1l8JeBXI/AAAAAAAAIQg/v98KicUn7g8/s1600/chupaa.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-DCrrECiFJvo/VJM1l8JeBXI/AAAAAAAAIQg/v98KicUn7g8/s1600/chupaa.png" height="88" width="320" /></a></div><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The China-Brazil Earth Resources Satellite (CBERS)-4 Satellite jointly developed by China and Brazil was successfully launched in Taiyuan. On the same day, President Xi Jinping and President Dilma Rousseff of Brazil exchanged congratulatory messages.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">In his congratulatory message, Xi Jinping expressed that the CBERS cooperation program has set a successful precedent for developing countries to conduct cooperation in space industries. Over the past years, the CBERS program has yielded fruitful results and made important contributions to the improvement of the scientific and technological level in both countries and to the economic and social development of the two side. The successful launch of the CBERS-4 satellite coincided with the 200th Long March rocket family launch, demonstrating the latest achievements and level of bilateral science and technology cooperation. It is hoped that the two countries could actively implement the decade-long bilateral space cooperation plan, strengthen cooperation in scientific and technological innovation and further enrich the connotation of the China-Brazil comprehensive strategic partnership, so as to bring benefit to the two countries and two peoples.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">In her congratulatory message, President Dilma Rousseff expressed that she and President Xi Jinping had a meeting during the G20 Leaders' Summit in Brisbane not long ago and reached consensus that the CBERS program showed potential of cooperation in science, technology and innovation among developing countries. It is of historic significance since both sides will share the satellite images with African and Latin American countries for free under the spirit of South-South cooperation. The launch of the CBERS-4 satellite vigorously promotes the development of Brazil-China comprehensive strategic partnership and Brazil will continue to firmly support the cooperation in CBERS</span>.</div>Carlos Vassallohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08219677485209103307noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8183203272412740260.post-50103788282779456552014-11-10T11:03:00.000-05:002014-11-10T11:03:17.932-05:00Brazilian leader’s economic head-fake<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-T19qC64Vur8/VGDhur5htuI/AAAAAAAAH7s/9JneUkmhzmA/s1600/brsilianana.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-T19qC64Vur8/VGDhur5htuI/AAAAAAAAH7s/9JneUkmhzmA/s1600/brsilianana.jpg" height="176" width="200" /></a></div><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff won’t begin her second term until Jan. 1, but if the first week after her re-election is any indication, the coming four years will be stinkers. </span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">After a bitter campaign, the Workers Party leader made all the right noises, leavening her victory speech with grace notes about “dialogue,” embracing reforms and tackling corruption. The Sao Paulo stock index promptly plunged, rallied, then tumbled again as investors parsed the policy chatter and weighed the chances that she may name a conservative, market-minded executive to replace the divisive lame-duck Finance Minister Guido Mantega.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><a href="http://www.koreaherald.com/view.php?ud=20141103000347"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Read full article</span></a></div>Carlos Vassallohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08219677485209103307noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8183203272412740260.post-84931302212611385032014-11-06T16:22:00.001-05:002014-11-06T16:22:36.347-05:00Brazilian leader’s economic head-fake<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-Xb7LMIcF9vM/VFvmg-eSxZI/AAAAAAAAH4Q/7pgtjmP2xHs/s1600/dilhma.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-Xb7LMIcF9vM/VFvmg-eSxZI/AAAAAAAAH4Q/7pgtjmP2xHs/s1600/dilhma.jpg" /></a></div><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff won’t begin her second term until Jan. 1, but if the first week after her re-election is any indication, the coming four years will be stinkers. </span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">After a bitter campaign, the Workers Party leader made all the right noises, leavening her victory speech with grace notes about “dialogue,” embracing reforms and tackling corruption. The Sao Paulo stock index promptly plunged, rallied, then tumbled again as investors parsed the policy chatter and weighed the chances that she may name a conservative, market-minded executive to replace the divisive lame-duck Finance Minister Guido Mantega.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">While speculation centered on some intriguing names ― such as Murilo Ferreira, chief executive of mining conglomerate Vale SA ― the smart money in Brasilia, unfortunately, is on a Rousseff crony.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.koreaherald.com/view.php?ud=20141103000347"><br /></a></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.koreaherald.com/view.php?ud=20141103000347">Read full article</a></span></div>Carlos Vassallohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08219677485209103307noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8183203272412740260.post-22221404022325732492014-11-03T22:05:00.000-05:002014-11-03T22:05:34.455-05:00Brazilian Leaders Call for Unity after Vicious Presidential Race<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-qm3a5KxZXVc/VFhCPy9IcKI/AAAAAAAAH2w/Mr2pw0f7XP4/s1600/time.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-qm3a5KxZXVc/VFhCPy9IcKI/AAAAAAAAH2w/Mr2pw0f7XP4/s1600/time.png" height="85" width="200" /></a></div><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">After what was the most aggressive Presidential election in recent Brazilian history, both the winner and loser have called for unity, striking a tone of reconciliation following the close of a nail-biting campaign that resulted in a second term for the incumbent, Dilma Rousseff. The Workers’ Party leader only just kept her job, securing 51.64% of the vote in a weekend run-off vote against Aécio Neves, the candidate of the center-right Brazilian Social Democracy Party who took 48.36%.</span><br /><a href="http://time.com/3543884/brazil-leaders-call-for-unity/"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></a><a href="http://time.com/3543884/brazil-leaders-call-for-unity/"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Read full article</span></a></div>Carlos Vassallohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08219677485209103307noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8183203272412740260.post-68755526357703762362014-10-10T17:21:00.001-04:002014-10-10T17:21:48.596-04:00Brazilian States' New Leaders Must Control Expenditures<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-hdtaFI3l9X8/VDhN4Al8_AI/AAAAAAAAHkg/9jT5b9ZNfrI/s1600/diditol.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-hdtaFI3l9X8/VDhN4Al8_AI/AAAAAAAAHkg/9jT5b9ZNfrI/s1600/diditol.png" height="34" width="200" /></a></div><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">NEW YORK--(Business Wire)--Fitch expects the next Brazilian state governments to control public employee costs as they will continue to face weak economic conditions and low job creation that will likely crimp tax collection growth. On Oct. 5, Brazil held its general elections to choose the president, national congress, state governors and state legislatures. The new officials will take their seats on Jan. 1, 2015.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Despite the adoption of various strategies that materially increased tax revenues in recent years, particularly the value-added tax (ICMS), states are suffering from growing public employee costs, including pension payments. This has led to historically low operating margins. In 2015, operational margins for the five Fitch-rated states are expected to rise to 5.4% from the 4.7% anticipated for 2014. However, there is some room for downward revisions.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><a href="http://www.digitaljournal.com/pr/2243701"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Read full article</span></a></div>Carlos Vassallohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08219677485209103307noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8183203272412740260.post-34947424602203475082014-10-03T17:01:00.000-04:002014-10-03T17:01:05.894-04:00Brazil’s elections are a wake-up call for its business community—the country is moving ahead, with or without them<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-MHqBGvdvVvY/VC8OanOsQpI/AAAAAAAAHaQ/_MTOlwOc3Os/s1600/rtr.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-MHqBGvdvVvY/VC8OanOsQpI/AAAAAAAAHaQ/_MTOlwOc3Os/s1600/rtr.jpg" height="109" width="200" /></a></div><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The face of power in Brazil is becoming ever more diverse.The top two candidates in Brazil’s presidential race on Sunday are both leftists and women, one of whom is black. They are President Dilma Rousseff of the Workers’ Party and Afro-Brazilian environmentalist Marina Silva. The private sector’s preferred candidate, a white man from Brazil’s once-dominant center-right party, trails in the polls.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">If Rousseff and Silva go head-to-head in a run-off, as expected, voters will choose between competing progressive agendas. This would leave the country’s business community without a serious contender for the first time since the country’s transition to democracy in 1985. </span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><a href="http://blogs.reuters.com/great-debate/2014/10/03/brazils-elections-are-a-wake-up-call-to-for-its-business-community-the-country-is-moving-ahead-with-or-without-them/"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Read full article</span></a></div>Carlos Vassallohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08219677485209103307noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8183203272412740260.post-17499751679557115452014-09-29T22:21:00.004-04:002014-09-29T22:21:50.840-04:00This Is What a Leader Looks Like<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The video is a two-minute-long political commercial for Marina Silva, a woman who rose up from crushing poverty, working as a housekeeper to make ends meet, to become the current front-runner in Brazil's presidential election. It is an excerpt from a Silva speech in which sheaddresses the country's current leader, Dilma Rousseff, responding to Rousseff's assertion that Silva would shut down the Bolsa Familia, a social program designed to help the poorest Brazilians and one that is widely popular across Latin America's biggest country.</span><br /><a href="http://carnegieendowment.org/2014/09/19/this-is-what-leader-looks-like"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></a><a href="http://carnegieendowment.org/2014/09/19/this-is-what-leader-looks-like"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Read full article</span></a><br /><br /></div><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/X5qM4ZdNGVw" width="620"></iframe></div>Carlos Vassallohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08219677485209103307noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8183203272412740260.post-36625760490808285452014-09-24T17:00:00.000-04:002014-09-24T17:00:21.163-04:00At UN Assembly, Brazilian President calls for global economic rebound<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-UbRxGBwoLO0/VCMw3OtBpfI/AAAAAAAAHAc/CRVmy7Pgj-4/s1600/unu.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-UbRxGBwoLO0/VCMw3OtBpfI/AAAAAAAAHAc/CRVmy7Pgj-4/s1600/unu.jpg" height="200" width="200" /></a></div><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">24 September 2014 – Highlighting her own country’s success in slashing extreme poverty, Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff today used her role as first national leader to address the annual General Debate of the United Nations General Assembly to stress the urgent need to revive the global economy.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">“It is vital and urgent to restore the dynamism of the global economy, which should work towards fostering investment, international trade and the reduction of inequalities among countries,” she told the leaders of 193 nations gathered here on the first day of the Debate, where Brazil has traditionally been called as the first national speaker.</span><br /><a href="http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=48810#.VCMwZfldW7o"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></a><a href="http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=48810#.VCMwZfldW7o"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Read full article</span></a><br /><div><br /></div>Carlos Vassallohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08219677485209103307noreply@blogger.com0