Brazil

Brazil's Retail Sales Unexpectedly Jump By Most Since 2013

Brazil’s retail sales unexpectedly rose in February by the most since July 2013, carried by a surprise surge in sales of furniture and appliances....

Funds Sour On Sugar As Brazil Outlook Eclipses Global Deficit

Investors are losing their taste for sugar. Money managers are backpedaling on bets prices will rally, cutting their wagers last week for the first time...

Iowa Corn Fueling Brazil Cars As Demand Spurs Imports

At the Plymouth Energy LLC plant in the heart of the US corn belt - where home-grown fuel from grain was supposed to ease American dependence on foreign oi...

Brazilians Scrimp, Save In Unwelcome Surprise For Investors

Mariele Santarosa limits her social outings and shopping now that business at her Sao Paulo dental practice has dropped 80 per cent in a year, a victim of...

Brazilians Ditching Easter Chocolate Boost Cocoa-Butter Exports

At a supermarket in Sao Paulo, Lenita Lima browses through hundreds of chocolate eggs to find the ones she can afford to give her daughter and eight nephew...

EU Sugar-Price Surge Spurs Imports From Brazil As Sucden Ships

Surging European Union sugar prices are spurring imports from northeast Brazil under a system that allows supplies to enter at reduced rates. Trader Suc...

Sugar-Cane Fuel Wins In Brazil As Cheap Ethanol Beats Gasoline

Brazil’s economic and political crises are proving to be a boon to one of the nation’s most embattled sectors: ethanol producers. Drivers, w...

Britvic Reports Declining Revenues For Q1 As Tough Trading Conditions Continue

Britvic has reported revenue of £311.6 million for the 12 weeks ending December 20, 2015, however on an organic basis, reported revenue declined by 2...