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•Competing to Win
•Brian Milner

A view of part of Sao Paulo. The Brazilian economy hit a wall last year, weighed down by, among other things, sky-high borrowing costs, a ridiculously overpriced currency, uncompetitive business taxes and infrastructure woes.

They’ve got an awful lot of worries in Brazil

An oil tanker pulls into the port of a Repsol oil refinery in Cartagena, eastern Spain. Brazil is key to Repsol’s Latin American explorations after Argentina announced in April that it would nationalize the Spanish company’s Argentine unit YPF.

Repsol-led group makes big oil, gas find off coast of Brazil

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Chile's Chuquicamata open-pit copper mine. Some analysts say a sharper slowdown is unavoidable if prices for copper, the country's top export, fall further.

As Chile’s economy slows, interest rates expected to hold steady

Mexican economic growth accelerates
Thursday, May. 17, 2012
Ivanhoe Cambridge adding Brazilian, Chicago assets
Wednesday, May. 16, 2012
Decline in real causes celebration in Brasília
Monday, May. 14, 2012
Finning International rides Chile's resource boom
Sunday, May. 13, 2012
New ETF scours globe for yield - even Venezuela
Friday, May. 11, 2012
Carlos Slim's puzzling manoeuvre in Europe
Tuesday, May. 08, 2012

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