Many Brazilian companies avoided capital spending in the days of protection and hyperinflation, leaving Brazil with only a third as much capital equipment a head as South Korea.
He snuck back into the country on Sept. 21 and found refuge at the Brazilian Embassy in the capital.
An interesting point you made is the reference to the recent purchase of Burger King by 3G Capital and its Brazilian investors.
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Since sneaking back into the country in September he has lived in the Brazilian embassy in Tegucigalpa, the capital, under threat of arrest if he ventured outside.
Barclays Capital reiterated its overweight on Brazilian oil major Petrobras (PBR) on Thursday even as the stock declined by more than 6% in intraday trade.
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The stop was caused by a virtual freeze of capital inflows and lending as Brazilian banks were much more reliant back then on low rate international interbank lending, Volpon says.
The violence occurred in Curuguaty, a remote community about 240 kilometers (150 miles) northeast of the Paraguayan capital, Asuncion, near the Brazilian border.
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The market appears highly bullish on the Brazilian currency, the real, with Barclays Capital saying April 6 that the dollar-real exchange could take the currency to BRL1.50 within in the next three months.
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Sequoia Capital has long been hinting at a Brazilian hub, which they should take the plunge on in 2013.
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Equity listings here are only for Brazilian companies and its Novo Mercato has become the capital funnel for new companies going public.
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It was just 18 months after a little-known private equity shop, 3G Capital, took Burger King private in a leveraged buyout. 3G Capital is backed by a number of Brazilian investors that include billionaire Jorge Paulo Lemann.
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But then, from a Brazilian point of view, I would be afraid if capital flight broke the bank system in Argentina, because for sure it would affect my country and the rest of South America, and Mercosur would probably collapse.
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Brazilian police last year raided a number of sweatshops in the capital, Brasilia, and in Sao Paulo, where undocumented immigrants from Bolivia and Pakistan were found working in unsafe conditions for very little or no pay.
Brasilia , Brazil's planned capital, was built to serve exclusively as the nexus of Brazilian bureaucracy.
Bank of America is already selling a stake in a Brazilian lender, and its exit of Mexico will help add to its capital and narrow its focus.
The World Bank calculates that import tariffs lowered returns in Brazilian farming by 5% in 1997, whereas tariffs reduced returns in capital-intensive manufacturing by a full 22%.
Joining a long list of Silicon Valley investors in South America, Peter Thiel and his early-stage global venture capital firm, Valar Ventures, announced its first investment in a Brazilian company Tuesday.
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They did rise, but in between that period the Brazilian government, which owns 51% of Petrobras, diluted the shares to raise capital.
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Mr Lopes insists that tight monetary policy will slow the capital outflow, because it is no longer profitable to borrow reais to buy dollar-denominated Brazilian bonds, as it was when bond yields soared last month.
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