All Posts Tagged With: "Brazil"

Brazil and Inflation: The Struggle Continues…

Paola Pecora asks: “The inevitable moment arrived: higher inflation in Brazil continues rising dangerously, although it remains within the inflationary goals for the year… what can Brazil do regarding this matter?”

Brazil Finds More Oil

Petroleo Brasileiro SA and the UK’s BG Group have made a second major oil find in Brazil’s Santos Basin.

The Guara exploration well struck oil in the BM-S-9 concession area – the same block as September’s Carioca discovery, which could contain as many as 33 billion barrels of oil.

“There are those who will tell you that oil is a cyclical business and a global fungible commodity,” says Christian DeHaemer in Taipan Daily.

Real Potential in Brazil Treasury Bonds

The Brazilian currency, the real, got another boost from the 50 basis point (0.5%) hike in the central bank’s target interest rate on June 4, making Brazil treasury bonds an attractive component of a multi-currency investment portfolio.

Chuck Butler anticipated the rate move in The Daily Reckoning earlier this week…

Brazilian Oil Find to Cost $240bn to Develop

Oil exploration experts have predicted that Brazilian oil find – the Tupi deposit and possible offshore fields nearby – may cost up to $240 billion to exploit.

But if the prospects turn out to hold $6 trillion of petroleum, they’ll kick the emerging market into the premier league, making it one of the world’s ten largest oil producers.

“There are those who will tell you that oil is a cyclical business and a global fungible commodity,” says Christian DeHaemer in Taipan Daily.

A Speculative Buy on the Second-Largest, Unexplored Oil Reserve in the World

There are those who will tell you that oil is a cyclical business and a global fungible commodity. It rises and falls with the business phase. If you look at a hundred-year chart, it is as obvious as a sidewinder on a sand dune. A sine wave through time — up and down in seven-year cycles.

Dollar Rises On Traders’ Hopes of Escaping Recession

The US dollar looks set to make a second straight monthly advance against the yen and euro as gains in stocks showed traders are cautiously optimistic the economy may not slide into recession after all.

“The idea that the Fed will continue to cut rates has been completely put to bed and the market is now flirting with the idea of a rate hike. That has given the dollar a boost,” said Alan Ruskin, head of international currency strategy at RBS Greenwich Capital Markets in Connecticut, in Bloomberg. More from that story:

Viva Brazil

Brazil is an amazing place. For a long time, this country of 186 million was seen as a world power in soccer and that’s about it. Though Brazil is the fifth-largest country in the world and the fifth-most populous, few paid attention to it.

Titanium is Flying High

As a result of soaring fuel costs, aircraft demand forecasts are being revised… upwards. Yes, that’s the latest news. What has happened to all the green intentions that columnists are trying to inspire?

An Upgrade For Brazil!

Kohn gives the wink and nod… GDP is revised up to .09%… Dollar Bulls dancing in the streets… Oil prices fall…

A Slam Dunk way to Invest over the Next 50 Years

The latest is in from Sadia: It’s a bull market in food. Sadia is one of the largest food companies in the world, and Brazil’s largest meat exporter. Its operations sit in the world capital of cheap labor, abundant water, and fertile soil.

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