How Brazil became the world's soybean superpower — and what it costs
Around 170 million tonnes a year, most of it sold to China: the soy complex is Brazil's trade engine and its hardest environmental argument. The system, explained.
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Brazil's companies, agribusiness, fintech and creative economy.
What is pre-salt, and why does it make Petrobras a dividend machine?
Beneath two kilometers of salt off Brazil's coast lies the oil that reset the country's economics. The geology, the politics and the payout, explained.
The standing forest that pays: açaí and the Amazon's bioeconomy
Pará grows most of the world's açaí in floodplain agroforestry that keeps forest standing. Now the state is trying to scale the model beyond one berry.
Sertanejo stadiums, funk charts: Brazilian music's export decade
Brazil is Latin America's largest recorded-music market, and after years streaming only its old canon abroad, its new genres are charting globally. How the business works now.
Brazil's inflation falls to 3.81 percent, back inside the band
February's IPCA dropped sharply from 4.44 percent in January — the disinflation that justified the central bank's first rate cut, with a mid-month reminder that the path is bumpy.
Brazil grew 2.3 percent in 2025, IBGE reports — deceleration with an explanation
The statistics institute's March 3 release shows growth slowing from 3.4 percent in 2024, with credit at cycle-high rates doing the braking. What the number says about 2026.