India Diversifies Export Market To Counter US Tariff Hike

New Delhi: India has succeeded in diversifying its export market with overseas shipments recording a year-on-year growth in over 20 countries across Europe, the Middle East, Africa and Latin America which has helped to offset the adverse impact of...

Brazil Begins Planting with Expected Record Acreage Driven by High Demand but Low Margins

By Joana Colussi and Michael Langemeier Farmers across Brazil have begun planting the 2025/26 crop season, with expectations for another record in corn and soybean acreage. The first outlook for the new cycle, released by the National Supply...

Global Economies Could Recover More Than $3.3 Trillion USD Annually by Using AI to Reduce Illicit Flows

Money laundering is draining economies worldwide, with an estimated $5.5 trillion USD lost each year across global markets, according to new research from Napier AI. This equates to 5 per cent of global gross domestic product (GDP) laundered...

Brazil's Embraer ends third quarter with record backlog of $31.3 billion

SAO PAULO (Reuters) -Brazilian planemaker Embraer’s firm order backlog stood at a record $31.3 billion at the end of the third quarter, up 38% from a year earlier, according to a securities filing. The company delivered 62 aircraft in the period,...

Business : Appian, IFC Launch US$1 Bln Mining Fund For Emerging Markets

KUALA LUMPUR, Oct 21 (Bernama) -- Appian Capital Advisory Limited (Appian), the investment advisor to long-term value-focused private capital funds, has launched a critical minerals, metals and mining fund for emerging markets in partnership with...

Lula to seek market of 680 million inhabitants in Southeast Asia

President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva leaves on Tuesday (Oct. 21) for Southeast Asia, where he will visit Indonesia and Malaysia. His schedule includes participation in the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) Summit and the East Asia...

IBAMA approves oil drilling at Amazon Basin weeks before COP30, staining Brazil’s climate discourse, Greenpeace warns 

São Paulo, Brazil – Less than a month before COP30 in Belém, Brazil’s environmental agency, IBAMA, has granted Petrobras a licence to explore oil in the Foz do Amazonas Basin. The region is rich in marine biodiversity and home to a massive reef...

Zero tariff not zero risk: Securing Ghana’s competitiveness in global trade

Ghana stands at the threshold of a major trade realignment. By the end of October 2025, the government is expected to finalise a zero-tariff trade agreement with China, granting Ghanaian goods duty-free access to the world’s second-largest...

Business : Principal: Global Financial Inclusion Hits A Plateau In 2025 Amid Rising Uncertainty

KUALA LUMPUR, Oct 21 (Bernama) -- Global progress on financial inclusion has plateaued in 2025 after steady gains in recent years, according to the latest Global Financial Inclusion Index released by Principal Financial Group. The report, now in...

EU agri-food mission to Brazil adds to Ornua’s ‘scoping activity’

Ornua said that an European Union agri-food mission to Brazil this week will help the co-op to explore new market opportunities for Irish dairy. Ornua is among 70 delegates from the European food and drinks industry participating in the week-long...

Politicisation of US-Brazil Trade

Back in July 2025, Trump published a message on his social media platform, Truth Social, threatening Brazil with 50% tariffs. In response, Lula emphasised that his country remains a sovereign state and will not tolerate outside interference in its...

Brazil Grants Petrobras License to Drill in Equatorial Margin, Testing a Critical Bet on Future Oil

Brazil has allowed Petrobras to drill a single test well far off the coast of Amapá, in the country’s Equatorial Margin. It is exploration, not production: a five-month “biopsy” of the seabed that will tell Brazil whether its northern offshore...

Q&A: Brazil minister Marina Silva calls for 'COP of truth'

What is the great difficulty in unlocking climate financing? Unfortunately, developed countries have not fulfilled the commitment made under the (2015) Paris Agreement. They are the largest historical emitters and, since they have already solved...

Trump’s words aren’t stopping China, Brazil and many other countries from setting higher climate goals, but progress is slow

In the Marshall Islands, where the land averages only 7 feet (2 meters) above sea level, people are acutely aware of climate change. Their ancestors have lived on this string of Pacific islands for thousands of years. But as sea level rises,...

Brazil Has The Worst Wealth Inequality In The World, Slovakia The Least

This visualization, via Visual Capitalist's Niccolo Conte, compares countries by wealth inequality in 2024 using the Gini coefficient, a standard measure where 0 represents perfect equality and 1 represents maximum inequality. The data for this...

Economic growth drives disparities in global cancer research

New research reveals that the number and complexity of cancer clinical trials since 2001 have varied across low- and middle-income countries (LMICs), with economic growth contributing to disparities, but only to a certain extent. The findings are...

Brazil’s Ambipar Seeks Bankruptcy in Latest Credit Market Jolt

Brazilian waste-management company Ambipar Participações e Empreendimentos SA decided to file for bankruptcy protection there, capping a rout after governance concerns, downgrades and executive exits that added to broader credit market risks....

Ahead of COP30, Brazil grants Petrobras a licence to drill for oil in Amazon region

Two weeks before Brazil hosts the COP30 summit in the Amazon city of Belém, its state-run oil firm Petrobras has been granted a licence to explore for oil in an offshore block in the mouth of the Amazon River, a move criticised by campaigners as...

Chicago soybeans extend gains on US-China trade optimism; corn, wheat firm

BEIJING - Chicago soybean futures rose for a fifth straight session on Tuesday, as optimism over U.S.-China trade talks lifted hopes for renewed soybean purchases by the world's top buyer. The most-active soybean contract on the Chicago Board of...

Virginia’s GDP growth drops from 6.2% to 1.7%. Three new economic reports issue warnings about why and what comes next.

Three new economic reports that came out last week suggest that Virginia’s next governor is going to have to spend a lot of her time dealing with a sluggish economy. The state’s two largest metro areas — read: Northern Virginia and Hampton Roads,...