Brazil Ports Not Operating 24hrs: Daily
By Ben Tavener, Senior Contributing Reporter SÃO PAULO, BRAZIL – An investigation has found that some of Brazil’s port terminals are still not operating twenty-four hours a day, despite the...
View ArticleSenate Passes Ports Regulation Bill: Daily
By Ben Tavener, Senior Contributing Reporter SÃO PAULO, BRAZIL – The Brazilian Senate has approved by a wide majority a bill that changes rules governing how the country’s ports are regulated, in a...
View ArticleU.S. Vice President Biden Visits Brazil
By Ben Tavener, Senior Contributing Reporter SÃO PAULO, BRAZIL – The Vice President of the United States, Joe Biden, is in Brazil this week, as part of a South American tour which also includes a visit...
View ArticleBrazil Infrastructure Spending Slows
By Maria Lopez Conde, Senior Contributing Reporter SÃO PAULO, BRAZIL – The Brazilian government has spent only 17.6 percent of the R$130.4 billion authorized for investments in the country in the...
View ArticleEBX Group Shares Continue to Tumble
By Jack Whibley, Contributing Reporter RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL – Once valued at over US$60 billion, and last year still worth US$35 billion, Eike Batista’s EBX Group is now being forced to seek buyers...
View ArticleEducation Faces Challenges in Brazil
By Maria Lopez Conde, Senior Contributing Reporter SÃO PAULO, BRAZIL – Investments in Brazil’s education sector as a percentage of Gross Domestic Product (GDP) have increased from 5.8 percent to 6.1...
View ArticleRio’s Huge Port Project Receives a Boost
By George Powell, Contributing Reporter RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL – A key phase of Rio’s Porto Maravilha urbanization project gets underway on November 2nd with the start of the long-awaited demolition of...
View ArticleRio Real Estate Predicted to Remain Firm in 2014
By William Jones, Contributing Reporter RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL – The world has watched as the real estate market across Brazil experienced a dramatic increase over the past five years, especially in...
View ArticleBrazil Lost $285B in Foreign Investment: Daily
By William Jones, Contributing Reporter RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL – According to the British business daily newspaper, The Financial Times, Brazil has lost close to US$285 billion worth of foreign...
View ArticleWorld Cup Generates Jobs and Boosts Economy in Brazil
By Lise Alves, Contributing Reporter SÃO PAULO, BRAZIL – The 2014 World Cup in Brazil has generated nearly one million jobs in the country and will inject approximately R$30 billion in the economy,...
View ArticleFor Sale: Real Estate in the United States
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View ArticleNew TALKS Series by The Rio Times Opens May 27th
By Jay Forte, Contributing Reporter RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL – On Wednesday, May 27th, The Rio Times is hosting their first “TALKS” speaker series event, bringing together a panel of experts in three...
View ArticleChina Agrees to US$53 Billion Investment in Brazil
By Jay Forte, Contributing Reporter RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL – The government announced that on Tuesday (May 19th), during the official visit of Chinese Prime Minister Li Keqiang, investment agreements...
View ArticleRio Governor Pezão Ensures Comperj Refinery Will Open
By Jay Forte, Contributing Reporter RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL – The governor of Rio de Janeiro, Luiz Fernando “Pezão” (Bigfoot), said yesterday (June 30th) that the troubled refinery, Petrochemical...
View ArticleRousseff Says Brazil Still Attractive for Foreign Investments
By Lise Alves, Senior Contributing Reporter SÃO PAULO, BRAZIL – President of Brazil, Dilma Rousseff, reassured a group of Brazilian and Swedish businessmen that the South American giant continues to be...
View ArticleMoody’s Announce Another Review of Brazil’s Credit Rating
By Lise Alves, Senior Contributing Reporter SÃO PAULO, BRAZIL – Stacking more pressure on Brazil’s already ailing economy, Moody’s Rating Agency announced Wednesday it was putting the country’s Baa3...
View ArticleBrazil Investment Grade Status Drops in Fitch Rating Adjustment
By Lise Alves, Senior Contributing Reporter SÃO PAULO, BRAZIL – The investment grade of Brazil has been pummeled with the downgrade on Wednesday of the country’s sovereign rating by Fitch Ratings....
View ArticleForeign Investors Look to Brazil for Bargains in the Housing Market
By Georgia Grimond, Senior Contributing Reporter RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL – As Brazil is rocked by political uncertainty and alarmed by a shrinking economy, canny investors are turning to the country’s...
View ArticleMisc: Investment Opportunity, 20% Ownership in Nightclub
INVESTMENT OPPORTUNITY – Twenty Percent Ownership in Popular Rio Nightclub located in Zona Sul. For Sale: twenty percent partnership in popular Night Club located in Humaita, Rio de Janeiro. With its...
View ArticleEditorial: What to do in Rio de Janeiro Now?
Editorial, by Stone Korshak RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL – When I first traveled to Rio de Janeiro in 2002, it was my next ‘adventure travel’ trip after Cuba – which was basically illegal to go to as a U.S....
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