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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Grain losses totaled 48.6 million tonnes over five years, according to trade group Farsul 12/17/2025 Between 2020 and 2025, farmers in Rio Grande do Sul lost a total of R$126.3 billion in revenue due to climate-related events such as droughts and floods, according to the state’s Agriculture Federation (Farsul). The group estimates […]