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..."The advantage he [the president] has is that there is a lack of Plan B to Temer,” said João Augusto de Castro Neves, a Brazil analyst with Eurasia Group....
...Yet far from rattling investors it seems capital markets no longer care very much about the deterioration of the country’s political scene into a B-grade television crime show....
...There are three other blocks that can be exploited later: A, B and C. “The biggest reserve in Carajás is the south range and Vale is only starting at one end of it here,” Mr Santos said....
...Helped by a commodity price boom, the trade union leader turned president lifted millions of Brazilians out of poverty, projected South American diplomacy internationally by putting the B into the Brics,...
...Standard & Poor’s rated the company a “B”, putting the bonds deep into junk territory....
...That’s certainly the view of Fitch, which on Friday slashed its rating on the company from B- to CCC, or 7 notches below investment grade....
...The rating agency lowered OGX’s credit rating from B to B-, six levels below investment grade, saying the company was expected to run short of cash next year on the back of oil production figures that were...
...This despite Batista securing the support and a $1bn credit line from fellow billionaire André Esteves. Last week, funding concerns prompted Standard & Poor’s to downgrade OGX from B to B-....
...The week’s most read: Cape Town property: on Russia’s radarIndia moves on current account gap at expense of growthEike Batista breaks his silenceBrazil to grow 3%?...
...And as if on cue, S&P on Tuesday slashed OGX’s rating by two notches from B- to CCC, sending it deeper into junk territory. So, some advice to Batista’s creditors: hide those mirrors....
...The rating agency on Thursday cut its ratings on OGX from B to B-, taking it six notches below investment grade....
...propels private wealth to record levels, according to a new report. http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/d8010010-c869-11e2-acc6-00144feab7de.html Philippine growth underpinned by revitalised manufacturing sector When B/...
...; b) are there any fiscal support measures for start-ups contemplated in the program; c) what happened to tourism in Greece after the crisis?...
...Eike Batista, the Rio de Janeiro-based tycoon, is currently ranked by Forbes as the world’s seventh-wealthiest person with a fortune of about $30bn....
...If the IMF’s Plan B above has to happen, the 150bps is on the chopping block. Mostly we’d submit that there is not a lot of margin left....
...Aburish (Bloomsbury 1989); ** “A House of Many Mansions: The History of Lebanon Reconsidered” by Kamal Salibi (I.B. Tauris 1988)....
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