Entries by Gelcy Bueno
Tax reform enters testing phase through 2026
Taxpayers begin to see first effects of changes through platform to check cashback and tax credits generated from IBS and CBS 12/29/2025 After nearly 40 years of debate in Brazil’s National Congress, tax reform is moving off the drawing board and beginning to take effect. On January 12, a platform will go live allowing taxpayers […]
St. George targets up to R$2bn in niobium, rare earths
Australian mining company seeks combined production to balance costs, draws U.S. interest keen to reduce reliance on China 12/29/2025 Australian mining company St. George may invest up to $350 million (R$1.94 billion at the current exchange rate) to develop its niobium and rare earths project in Araxá, the same city in Minas Gerais where Companhia Brasileira […]
Dividends still key to Brazil’s fiscal plan despite decline
Payouts from state-run companies may fall R$20 billion in 2025 but remain vital to primary target 12/22/2025 The Brazilian federal government expects to receive R$52.4 billion in dividends and profit-sharing payments from state-owned and mixed-capital companies in 2025. While this is lower than last year’s total, it would still mark the third-largest […]
Kalshi eyes Brazil as part of global expansion plans
Brazilian founder Luana Lopes Lara, the world’s youngest self-made female billionaire, says the company aims to expand its regulated prediction markets internationally 12/22/2025 Luana Lopes Lara — Photo: Reprodução/Instagram Kalshi, the U.S.-based prediction market platform co-founded by 29-year-old Brazilian Luana Lopes Lara, who became the world’s youngest self-made female billionaire, is exploring […]
China signals long-term interest in Mercosur trade deal
Beijing keeps talks on the table despite current hurdles, as global trade realigns 12/22/2025 China, the world’s second-largest economy, continues to signal to Mercosur diplomats its interest in negotiating a free trade agreement with the South American bloc, even while acknowledging that such a deal remains out of reach for now. People familiar with the […]
Enel São Paulo crisis fuels takeover interest in concession
Market points to Âmbar, Equatorial Energia, CPFL as potential buyers 12/18/2025 Retail businesses without power in São Paulo: recurring problems at Enel are drawing interest from potential buyers — Photo: Paulo Pinto/Agência Brasil After the government decided to initiate the process to terminate the Enel São Paulo power distribution concession, names of companies […]
Supreme Court forms majority against cutoff for Indigenous land claims
Six justices have already found temporal milestone thesis unconstitutional; trial set to end today 12/18/2025 A majority of justices of Brazil’s Supreme Court have voted to strike down provisions of the so-called temporal milestone law on the demarcation of Indigenous lands, which states that tribes would only be entitled to lands they occupied or that […]
Brazil’s nuclear reactor still on paper after 17 years, R$5bn planned
Brazilian Multipurpose Reactor project drags on amid delays and revisions 12/17/2025 Radiopharmaceuticals are used in cancer diagnostics and therapies — Photo: Divulgação ABDAN Nearly two decades after the government promised a reactor capable of producing radioisotopes—radioactive elements that underpin radiopharmaceuticals used in cancer diagnostics and therapies—Brazil remains far from having the equipment […]