Jan 4 Brazil returned to a trade surplus in 2015 as the worst recession in 25 years and a slump in the real currency damped demand for imports in Latin America's largest economy, data showed on Monday. Brazil posted a trade surplus of $19.681 billion for last year, rebounding from a deficit of $4 billion... Continue Reading →

  With crude prices at 11-year lows, the world's biggest oil and gas producers are facing their longest period of investment cuts in decades, but are expected to borrow more to preserve the dividends demanded by investors. At around $37 a barrel, crude prices are well below the $60 firms such as Total (TOTF.PA), Statoil... Continue Reading →

Brazil’s real led global declines as data showing weakness in the nation’s top trading partner added to concern a recession in Latin America’s largest economy will drag on. The real slid 2.3 percent to 4.0431 per dollar at 9:51 a.m. in Sao Paulo, on course for the weakest close in three months. The decline was the... Continue Reading →

Brazil analysts expect a deeper recession this year than previously forecast, as economic activity and confidence sink amid a political crisis. Latin America’s largest economy will shrink 2.95 percent this year, according to the weekly central bank survey of about 100 economists, versus a prior estimate of a 2.81 percent contraction. It was the 13th straight... Continue Reading →