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3 weeks ago | 
newsletters.brazilian.report | Gustavo Ribeiro |Letícia Arcoverde
Good morning! Anatel, Brazil’s telecom agency, will today begin analysing Starlink’s request to increase its number of satellites hovering over Brazil from 4,400 to around 12,000. Starlink dominates the satellite internet market — raising questions about sovereignty among members of the government. Brazil gets lower end of Trump tariffsDonald Trump and Howard Lutnick, his commerce secretary, in the White House Rose Garden.
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1 month ago | 
newsletters.brazilian.report | Letícia Arcoverde
Hello! Welcome to another edition of the Brazil Agro newsletter! If you have any questions about this newsletter, or topics you’d like to see covered in future issues, you can reach us at Why Brazil’s ethanol market won’t lose much sleep over US tariff threatsBrazil is the world’s second-largest ethanol producer. Most of it is made from sugarcane. Photo: Tridsanu Thopet/Shutterstock Brazil’s ethanol industry is facing a mix of promising opportunities and looming threats.
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1 month ago | 
newsletters.brazilian.report | Letícia Arcoverde
Hello! Welcome to another edition of the Brazil Business newsletter! If you have any questions about this newsletter, or topics you’d like to see covered in future issues, you can reach us at How oil dethroned soybeans as Brazil's top 2024 exportTanker Celso Furtado, sailing in the Negro River.
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1 month ago | 
newsletters.brazilian.report | Letícia Arcoverde |Lucas Berti
Hello, and welcome to the LatAm Report, your pulse on Latin America’s power plays and economics. If you have any questions about this newsletter, or topics you’d like to see covered in future issues, you can reach us at Colombia is launching a Pix-like instant payment system Cash still accounts for almost 80% of transactions in Colombia.
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1 month ago | 
newsletters.brazilian.report | Letícia Arcoverde
Hello! Welcome to another edition of the Brazil Business newsletter! If you have any questions about this newsletter, or topics you’d like to see covered in future issues, you can reach us at Drex, Brazil’s digital currency, faces technological hurdlesBrazilian Central Bank officials during a November 2024 forum on Drex, the digital currency the country is developing.
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1 month ago | 
newsletters.brazilian.report | Letícia Arcoverde
Hello! Welcome to another edition of the Brazil Agro newsletter! If you have any questions about this newsletter, or topics you’d like to see covered in future issues, you can reach us at How Brazilian farmers can gain from the US-China trade warSoybeans being loaded for export at the Port of Paranaguá, southern Brazil.
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1 month ago | 
newsletters.brazilian.report | Gustavo Ribeiro |Letícia Arcoverde
KPMG’s legal woes in Brazil. A deal that could unclog construction of a new nuclear power plant. Cybersecurity for Brazilian small and medium-sized companies
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1 month ago | 
newsletters.brazilian.report | Letícia Arcoverde
Hello! Welcome to Brazil Business. This week, there’s no escaping Carnival — which officially begins in a few days. Besides all the fun, the celebration is also a time for many businesses to make hay. If you have any questions about this newsletter, or topics you’d like to see covered in future issues, you can reach us at Carnival is good business for BrazilThe samba school parade in Rio de Janeiro is the most iconic spectacle of Carnival — but it’s only part of the story.
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2 months ago | 
newsletters.brazilian.report | Gustavo Ribeiro |Letícia Arcoverde
Happy Friday! Our weekly podcast is out, recapping some of the best stories we’ve covered this week. Listen now!Why Brazil’s public debt worries more than other countries’Brazil’s Finance Ministry, in Brasília. Photo: Washington Costa/MF Brazil’s gross public debt reached 76.1% of GDP at the end of 2024, 2.2 percentage points more than the previous year, according to data from the Central Bank. The total debt reached BRL 8.9 trillion (USD 1.5 trillion). State of play.
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Dec 9, 2024 | 
brazilian.report | Brazilian politics |In English |Letícia Arcoverde
4 min read Welcome to our Tech Roundup, where we bring you the biggest stories in technology and innovation in Brazil and Latin America. This week: we look at the ranking of Brazil’s best cities for startups While São Paulo is often regarded as Brazil’s business powerhouse, it is a medium-sized island city in the country’s South that has claimed the top spot for entrepreneurs.
