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Vale’s new chief earns benefit of the doubt
Pragmatism has marked Murilo Ferreira's first months in charge. Now a struggle looms over the draft mining code.
Business
Imports: turning back the tide?
Last year’s tax hike has curbed Asian car imports, but the government is struggling to look beyond quick fixes.
Infrastructure
Airports: Triunfo tries to justify outlay
The ambitious infrastructure company forecasts that poorly connected Viracopos will one day have more passengers than Heathrow does now.
Finance
Agribusiness in Tocantins: starting small, thinking big
Part of the new fertile frontier, the state has attracted forestry, fertiliser and biodiesel investors.
Deal analysis: Brazil Pharma, Ecocil and Brasil Insurance
A round-up of recent mergers and acquisitions.
Bulls and Bears
Sustaining single-digit rates
For the first time, Brazil’s top-rated forecasters are suggesting that interest rates will be under 10% at the end of 2013.
Agenda: bus rules, police strikes and a new General Motors factory
Upcoming events and economic data.
Best of local comment: interest rates, airports and bad debts
Airport privatisation is the government's "greatest achievement" to date, argues one observer.
Guest Column
Signs of realignment
Brazil's politics is undergoing change that will redraw Dilma Rousseff's path to re-election, says Aline Machado in Brasília.
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23 May 2013
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