BEST INVESTMENTS IN THE WORLD: BETTING ON BRAZIL

By Ben Rooney @CNNMoneyInvest (October 15, 2012: 10:58 AM ET)
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New York (CNNMoney) - Brazil may not be growing the way it once was, but there are still opportunities to be had in Latin America's largest economy.
http://money.cnn.com/2012/10/15/investing/brazil/index.html

Financial Times expands in Latin America (www.ft.com)

Launches digital newspaper print site in São Paulo and Latin America mobile app
London: 2 October 2012: The Financial Times announces a significant expansion into the Latin American market today.
http://aboutus.ft.com/2012/10/02/financial-times-expands-in-latin-america/#axzz29nvmUnoE

Can the NYT succeed in Brazil? ft.com, markets, beyondbrics

October 18, 2012 9:15 by Samantha Pearson (Financial Times: www.ft.com)
Oh, how the (NY) times are a-changin’…It was not so long ago that The New York Times, like many other global news outlets, would only dedicate a few column inches to Brazil.
http://blogs.ft.com/beyond-brics/2012/10/18/can-the-nyt-succeed-in-brazil/#axzz29nol0Iqg

Say "Bom Dia" to Brazilian Businesses

Slate: By Daniel Gross|Posted Friday, June 18, 2010, at 2:48 PM ET

Their economy is strong and they"re buying U.S. Companies. "Look out for the Brazilians and the Indians," the CEO of a large Fortune 500 consumer products company told me at a lunch a few months ago. And he wasn't talking about the World Cup. He was responding to a question about where the next wave of foreign investors in U.S. assets will come from.

http://www.slate.com/articles/business/moneybox/2010/06/say_bom_dia_to_brazilian_businesses.html

 

 

NY Times: Brazil Enacts Affirmative Action Law for Universities

By SIMON ROMERO,  Published: August 30, 2012

(photo by Ueslei Marcelino/Reuters)

RIO DE JANEIRO — Brazil’s government has enacted one of the Western Hemisphere’s most sweeping affirmative action laws, requiring public universities to reserve half of their admission spots for the largely poor students in the nation’s public schools and vastly increase the number of university students of African descent across the country.

universities.htmlhttp://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/31/world/americas/brazil-enacts-affirmative-action-law-for-