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By Reuters Staff1 Min ReadBRASILIA, Sept 10 (Reuters) - Brazil’s President Jair Bolsonaro said on Thursday he will not interfere in the market for rice, saying supply and demand should dictate the market, as domestic prices for the food staple soar.A day earlier Brazil trade body Camex eliminated import tariffs…

BRASILIA (Reuters) - Brazilian drugstore chain Pague Menos raised 746.9 million reais ($136 million) in an initial public offering priced at 8.50 reais per share, according to a securities filing on Monday.The company had to lower its price range bottom, initially set at 10.22 reais, in order to find enough…

BRASILIA/SAO PAULO (Reuters) - The Chinese city of Shenzhen’s government on Thursday identified a Brazilian meat plant owned by Aurora, the country’s third largest processor of chicken and pork, as the source of chicken wings that tested positive for the novel coronavirus. Bags of frozen chickens 'Aurora' are pictured at…

FILE PHOTO: Brazil's Privatisation Secretary Salim Mattar attends the ceremony of the secondary share offering and privatisation of Petrobras Distribuidora, at Brazil's B3 Stock Exchange in Sao Paulo, Brazil, July 25, 2019. REUTERS/Amanda PerobelliBRASILIA (Reuters) - Brazil’s privatization secretary Salim Mattar resigned on Tuesday, economy minister Paulo Guedes said, suggesting…

FILE PHOTO: Brazil's Privatisation Secretary Salim Mattar attends the ceremony of the secondary share offering and privatisation of Petrobras Distribuidora, at Brazil's B3 Stock Exchange in Sao Paulo, Brazil, July 25, 2019. REUTERS/Amanda PerobelliBRASILIA (Reuters) - Brazil’s privatization secretary Salim Mattar resigned on Tuesday, economy minister Paulo Guedes said, suggesting…

BRASILIA (Reuters) - Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro issued a decree on Thursday that will set aside 1.9 billion reais ($356 million) in funds to purchase and eventually produce the potential COVID-19 vaccine being developed by AstraZeneca PLC and Oxford University researchers. FILE PHOTO: Vinicius Molla, a hematologist and volunteer of…

FILE PHOTO: Physiotherapist Ana Carolina Xavier of FamilyCare, a group specialising in mobile physiotherapy care, and who also works at the ICU of Lagoa-Barra field hospital for COVID-19 patients, is treated by a colleague with the Brazilian physiotherapy method called RTA (Re-Balancing Thoracic-Abdominal), after being diagnosed with the coronavirus disease…

BRASILIA (Reuters) - Brazil’s Supreme Court ruled on Wednesday that President Jair Bolsonaro’s government must adopt measures to stop the spread of novel coronavirus to the country’s vulnerable indigenous communities. A majority of the justices voted to give the government 30 days to draw up a plan to reduce the…

BRASILIA, Brazil (AP) - Fires in the Brazilian Amazon increased 28% in July from a year ago, a state agency reported Saturday. The National Institute for Space Research, which is responsible for monitoring Brazil, said it recorded 6,803 fires in the Amazon rainforest last month, compared to 5,318 in the…

BRASILIA, Brazil (AP) — Facebook announced Saturday it has obeyed a Brazilian judge’s order for a worldwide block on the accounts of 12 of President Jair Bolsonaro’s supporters who are under investigation for allegedly running a fake news network.Supreme Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes said Friday night that the company…