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December 22, 2016 | Daily Business Review

The Brazillian government is signaling it wants to tackle triple-digit credit card interest rates.

By Matthew Malinowski and Mario Sergio Lima, Bloomberg News

7 minute read

December 05, 2016 | Daily Business Review

President-elect Donald Trump was looking at buying hotels in Cuba as recently as six months ago, according to a top Spanish hotel executive who learned of it from industry contacts. That would be at odds with Trump's stated Cuba policy and could have violated U.S. law against promoting tourism there.

By Stephanie Baker and Sharon Smyth, Bloomberg News

8 minute read

November 14, 2016 | Daily Business Review

A record number of immigrants are being held by the U.S. government in detention facilities as migrants arrive in high numbers.

By Lauren Etter, Bloomberg News

4 minute read

November 14, 2016 | Daily Business Review

President Mauricio Macri's policies have unleashed a retail sales boom. Unfortunately for the Argentine leader, it is in neighboring Chile.

By Laura Millan Lombrana, Bloomberg News

4 minute read

November 02, 2016 | Daily Business Review

In Rio state, hijackings have surged more than 150 percent from three years ago, part of a broader crime wave this year.

By David Biller, Bloomberg News

11 minute read

October 25, 2016 | Daily Business Review

Federal prosecutors are preparing to charge several individuals and confiscate their property over the alleged looting of Venezuela's state oil company in what may amount to one of the biggest asset seizures in U.S. history.

By Ben Bartenstein, Tiffany Kary and Alan Katz, Bloomberg News

12 minute read

October 19, 2016 | Daily Business Review

As one of the ugliest political contests in U.S. history nears its end, a Florida orthodontist-turned-devoted political activist finds himself in a strange position: He doesn't plan to vote.

By Dune Lawrence, Bloomberg News

11 minute read

October 19, 2016 | Daily Business Review

Six months ago, with Venezuela hurtling toward calamity, one of its most renowned economists living in exile assembled a group of scholars with a decidedly unacademic goal: to save the country.

By Andrew Rosati, Bloomberg News

12 minute read

October 17, 2016 | Daily Business Review

After more than a year of watching Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump bash Ford Motor Co. for moving jobs to Mexico, General Motors Co. has pushed ahead with its own expansion. It just hasn't said as much as Ford.

By Andrea Navarro, Nacha Cattan and David Welch, Bloomberg News

10 minute read

October 12, 2016 | Daily Business Review

It was advertised as Brazil's "new frontier," the vast savanna running alongside the Amazon jungle that would help meet China's insatiable demand for food. The farmers of Brazil heeded that call, razing trees, plowing virgin land and planting soybeans at a frenetic pace for much of the past decade.

By Gerson Freitas Jr. and Tatiana Freitas, Bloomberg News

8 minute read