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Chilean retail and supermarket sales surged in March, even as manufacturing slowed, fueling speculation that the central bank will raise its key interest rate toward the end of the year.
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Brazil’s currency policies are driving BlackRock Inc. to buy stocks that will benefit from a weaker real while Brown Brothers Harriman & Co. tells its clients the South American country is losing credibility.
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Brazil’s real is too strong and will remain misaligned for a period of time, Alberto Ramos, chief Latin America economist at Goldman Sachs Group Inc., said at the Bloomberg Latin America Investing Conference in New York.
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Brazil signaled it may cut its benchmark interest rate to a record low as a still “fragile” global economy eases inflationary pressures in the world’s sixth-biggest economy.
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Chilean policy makers were unanimous in their decision to keep the benchmark interest rate unchanged this month, saying inflation may fall into the target range later than previously thought, minutes of the meeting showed.
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In 2007, Brazilian geologists made the biggest oil find in the Americas in three decades. Buried more than five miles below sea-level, the discovery was estimated to raise the country’s crude reserves by 62 percent.
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Mexico’s benchmark stock index rose, extending the biggest weekly advance since December, after central bank minutes published today showed policy makers are considering cutting interest rates.
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Two numbers sent a jolt through the government of Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff in March. The first was the gross domestic product figure for 2011: Brazil GDP grew only 2.7 percent last year, down from 7.5 percent in 2010.
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Goldman Sachs raised its forecast for Argentina’s economic growth in 2011 after the economy expanded last year at the fastest pace since 2005.
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On a cool July evening, Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff hosts a cocktail party for 50 leaders of her governing coalition, Bloomberg Markets magazine reports in its November issue. Speaking from the foot of a red-carpeted staircase in the living room of Alvorada Palace, where she lives with her mother and aunt, Rousseff tells the gathered politicians that these are the best times for Brazil, according to four people who attended.
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