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

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.

Garry White’s in a fightin’ mood today. Just check out this quote from today’s Smart Commodities: “Blair didn’t have the balls to make essential decisions that would have secured our energy future”.

Why The Smart Money Is Flooding Brazil. Here’s a challenge: Find me a more exciting investment story than Brazil right now. I guarantee you will fail.

A month ago, I wrote an article here in the A-Letter detailing the global food crisis. According to data from the World Bank, global food prices have soared 83% in the past three years alone.

Recent Brazilian oil discoveries have lead Brazil’s richest man, Eike Batista, to take his company OGX Petroleo e Gas Participacoes SA public in a $3.37bn share offering. This from Bloomberg:

Brazilian billionaire Eike Batista is planning a 5.59 billion real ($3.37 billion) initial public offering of OGX Petroleo e Gas Participacoes SA, betting the country’s recent oil finds will lure investors who snubbed 20 IPOs this year.

A new community in South America is born with a variety of diverse and complex objectives spanning cultural, social and economic realms… another aim is the social inclusion, the civic participation, the strengthening of democracy for all.

Wall Street firm Goldman Sachs made the term “BRICs” famous in a 2003 research report.

With oil prices climbing to higher than $133, to what extent does Mexico benefit from this? Is it taking advantage of this special time?

Exactly 12 months ago, West Texas Intermediate crude oil was trading at just under $63 a barrel.