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...Net income increased slightly to a record R$2.2bn ($424mn), despite a R$1.2bn provision linked to a retail chain hit by an accounting scandal that affected several other lenders in Brazil....
...The first solo exhibition of the Lebanese artist’s work in a US museum includes her Bribes de corps series, whose experimentation hinges on the body....
...The company last week posted quarterly revenue of R$4.35bn ($840mn) and net income of R$1.94bn — both all-time highs....
...Collard greens, served as an accompaniment, have also climbed from R$30 to R$100 a box....
...For Lauro Gonzalez, professor at the think-tank Getúlio Vargas Foundation, the open letter shows a message being sent to the government about the risks of disruption to commerce....
...“The pressure for public spending is always very high in Brazil,” says Eduardo de Carvalho, a portfolio manager at Pacific Asset Management in Rio de Janeiro....
...“Bolsonaro still maintains 25 per cent approval in the polls and his allies in parliament are in a comfortable position,” said Lucas de Aragão, a partner at consultancy Arko Advice....
...Brazil’s Senate on Thursday voted to support a fresh aid package worth R$44bn ($7bn)....
...“When you have lower margins, the only remedy for this is to gain scale,” said chief executive Octavio de Lazari Junior. For consumers and businesses a shake-up is well overdue....
...FG 144 Ladbroke Grove, W10; nukanails.com Bastien Gonzalez, ParisIf you want deluxe-looking feet, with toenails as naturally pink as the inside of a conch shell washed up on a beach in the Maldives, Gonzalez...
...The governors of three states — Amazonas, Pará and Rio de Janeiro — have been implicated in various investigations and all three deny wrongdoing....
...Ricardo Ruiz Velazco, or “Double R”, its leader in the state of Michoacán....
...In the past decade, the cumulative debt of the country’s 20 top-league teams has soared 176 per cent to R$6.9bn ($1.7bn), even as revenue from TV rights increased 160 per cent to R$2bn....
...Sipping a Coca-Cola and eating a pão de queijo, Brazil’s president posed for photos with his arm around employees and supporters....
...changing balance of power and influence among those groups, with Bolsonaro clipping the wings of everyone who could overshadow him”, said Matías Spektor, a professor of politics at the Fundação Getúlio Vargas...
...Morena’s main banner is not to steal and for the PRI, it’s like public policy — get in and rob,” said Mr González....
...Her morning show paid R$350,000 ($86,000) to the family of Adélio Bispo de Oliveira, the man who stabbed far-right candidate Jair Bolsonaro earlier this month, to renovate their house — false....
...“He’s an extremist, he’s for the death penalty, but at the moment he’s the best option,” says Lucas de Lima Pereira Santos, 22, the son of Ms de Lima....
...One of these, Odebrecht, a large construction group, in July sold its controlling stake in Galeão, Rio de Janeiro’s international airport, to Chinese conglomerate HNA in a R$1bn ($310m) deal....
...“The whole thing doesn’t really make much sense — if you want to get hold of a rifle you can hire one in Brazil for just R$3,000 ($918),” says Rafael Alcadipani, a researcher at the Getulio Vargas Foundation...
...Pointing to his face, Rio de Janeiro’s angry civil police chief responded: “Do you see a clown nose here?”...
...Of the R$40bn spent on Olympic-inspired projects, 57 per cent was private sector money, he says....
...Shops that were spending R$40,000-R$50,000 with us are now placing orders for R$3,000,” Ms Valles said....
...Mr González De Paz joins from BBVA Asset Management, where he was a portfolio manager....
...The last president of Brazil to be impeached was Fernando Collor de Mello in 1992....
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