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...Little of Mr Batista’s Brazilian business empire survived the end of the commodities boom and he went bust in 2014 in a trail of exaggerated promises and extravagant spending....
...In fact, The Silkworm is even more beguiling than its predecessor, with Strike on the trail of a missing writer....
...He said that because the Spanish and Greek markets are shrinking as their economies struggle, the drop in sales there was having less of an impact on the company....
...Netflix, the DVD subscription and online video streaming service, is expanding into 43 countries across Central and South America and the Caribbean, after striking deals to show programming from Spanish...
...Launched a year later it quickly overtook Deutsche Börse, the London Stock Exchange’s UK markets and the Spanish exchange to become the second-largest European bourse by turnover this year....
...Qatari investors have made their first significant move into Latin America with the $2.72bn purchase of a convertible stake in the Brazilian business of Santander, the Spanish bank....
...In May, Standard Chartered, the UK-headquartered but emerging market-focused bank, blazed a trail by listing the first Indian depositary receipt – raising $500m in the process....
...Spain’s Telefónica, which has secured its growth platform in South America, bought into Telecom Italia last year, while Vodafone secured a crucial presence in India....
...But Repsol YPF, the Spanish oil major, underperformed after Deutsche Bank lowered its rating on the stock from “buy” to “hold” and removed the stock from its pan-European focus list....
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