Mar 26, 2014 Global Insight from WORLD

Jacketed Rousseff makes investors nervous

Fear that economic restraints will be cast aside after election

Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff delivers a speech during the taking on ceremony of new ministers --to replace those who left to run in the October elections -- at Planalto Palace in Brasilia on March 17, 2014. AFP PHOTO / Evaristo SaEVARISTO SA/AFP/Getty Images
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Mar 25, 2014

Brazil attacks credit downgrade by S&P

Rousseff under pressure to tighten fiscal management

Mar 24, 2014 WORLD

S&P cuts Brazil to one notch above junk

Rating agency cites concern about growth and economic credibility

A Maersk Line container ship docks at the North Port Pier in Port Klang, Malaysia, on Monday, Dec. 31, 2007. Malaysia's export growth probably slowed in December as a cooling U.S. economy and a rising ringgit hurt demand for the Southeast Asian nation's electronics goods. Photographer: Goh Seng Chong/Bloomberg News
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Mar 20, 2014

Brazil yet to feel World Cup bounce

Container trade to expand less than hoped, says Maersk

Mar 19, 2014 The Macro Sweep

S Africa inflation edges higher

South African inflation rises to 5.9% while retail sales climb

U.S. Crude Oil Supplies Probably Fell Last Week, Survey ShowsCrude Oil Inventories Probably Fell As Gulf Coast Refiners Lowered Supplies
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Mar 14, 2014

Transatlantic trade talks hit German snag

Berlin breaks ranks and opposes TTIP dispute settlement clause

Mar 14, 2014 The Macro Sweep from UK ECONOMY

Brazil’s monthly GDP beats expectations

UK trade deficit widens while the Netherlands posts a surplus

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Mar 13, 2014 MARKETS

Pricey beef a tender topic in Argentina

Once-dominant Latin American industry is in decline

Demonstrators make a barricade of buring rubbish in Caracas
Mar 13, 2014

Venezuela set to ease currency rules

Aim is to ease shortages and combat inflation

Enrique Peña Nieto
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Mar 11, 2014 WORLD

Mexico president attacks vested interests

Powerful groups have been accepted as cultural norm

Mar 11, 2014 The Macro Sweep

Germany’s trade surplus widens

Czech wages decline and NZ retail spending rises

Mar 10, 2014 WORLD

Bachelet reforms on shaky ground in Chile

The economy of the copper-rich country is slowing

Feb 27, 2014

Brazil avoids slipping into recession

Economists caution against reading too much into results

Feb 27, 2014 The Macro Sweep

Swiss economy slows, French confidence slips

German import prices fall and New Zealand imports drop

Feb 26, 2014 The Macro Sweep

HK GDP expands, Singapore output falls

Taiwan employment edges up; construction increases in Australia

Feb 25, 2014 COMPANIES

Repsol accepts $5bn Argentina settlement

Deal ends wrangling over YPF nationalisation

Feb 25, 2014 WORLD

Protests against Maduro split Venezuela

Nation divided largely on class lines

Feb 25, 2014 The Macro Sweep

S Africa and Peru GDP, Philippines trade

Trade mixed in Asia, while supply of spirits drops in NZ

Feb 23, 2014 WORLD

Capture of Mexican drug lord shakes cartels

Catch could accelerate shift away from moving drugs into the US

Feb 21, 2014 Editorial from COMMENT

Time for US policy change on Cuba

Embargo is embarrassing, anachronistic – and has failed

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Hungarian finance minister Gyorgy Matolcsy looks on before the start of the EU parliament's economic affairs committee at the EU Headquarters in Brussels ©AFP Hungary’s central bank governor is no “maverick”

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