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BRASILIA, June 23 (Reuters) - Brazil’s central bank ruled on Tuesday that Visa and Mastercard must suspend launching payments and transfers on Facebook’s WhatsApp in the country, or must cease such operations immediately, according to a statement. The bank said it had made the decision in order to preserve the…

(Adds detail, quote) By Jamie McGeever BRASILIA, June 23 (Reuters) - Brazil’s central bank on Tuesday announced a series of measures to potentially pump hundreds of billions of reais into the economy, boosting credit in particular to micro, small and medium-sized companies struggling in the coronavirus crisis. The measures include…

BRASILIA, June 23 (Reuters) - Brazil’s central bank President Roberto Campos Neto said on Tuesday that firms will be able to use real estate as collateral for additional loans, a program that could potentially provide up to 60 billion reais ($11.6 billion) of new credit. In a presentation outlining the…

BRASILIA, June 23 (Reuters) - Brazil’s federal tax revenue fell to 77.4 billion reais ($15 billion) in May, the federal tax service said on Tuesday, down 32.9% in real terms on the same month last year. It was more, however, than the 69.9 billion reais forecast in a Reuters poll…

BRASILIA, June 23 (Reuters) - Brazil’s central bank on Tuesday outlined details of its plans to buy private-sector bonds on the secondary market, a program aimed at tackling potential dysfunction, volatility and lack of liquidity in the corporate bond market. Assets with a credit rating equivalent to “BB-“ or higher,…

By Reuters Staff1 Min ReadBRASILIA, June 22 (Reuters) - Brazil’s lower house speaker Rodrigo Maia on Monday said Congress is likely to vote new environmental licensing bill in August, following long-running demands from the country’s agricultural sector.Maia added that the existing rules are burdensome and hold back investments in the…

RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) - The governor of the federal district in which Brazil’s capital Brasilia is located closed the area around the presidential palace, ministries, Supreme Court and Congress on Sunday to keep right-wing supporters of President Jair Bolsonaro from gathering there. Governor Ibaneis Rocha forbade car and pedestrian…

RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) - The governor of the federal district in which Brazil’s capital Brasilia is located closed the area around the presidential palace, ministries, Supreme Court and Congress on Sunday to keep right-wing supporters of President Jair Bolsonaro from gathering there. Governor Ibaneis Rocha forbade car and pedestrian…

By: Reuters | Brasilia | Published: June 10, 2020 7:16:14 am Health personnel work in a field hospital built inside a gym to treat COVID-19 patients in Santo Andre, on the outskirts of Sao Paulo, Brazil (AP Photo/Andre Penner)Brazil on Tuesday restored detailed COVID-19 data to its official national website…

By Lisandra Paraguassu and Eduardo SimõesBRASILIA/SAO PAULO (Reuters) - Brazil on Tuesday restored detailed COVID-19 data to its official national website following controversy over the removal of cumulative totals and a ruling by a Supreme Court justice that the full set of information be reinstated.The move came after days of…