Brazil

Brazil's Real Gains to a 9-Year High on Interest-Rate Increase (Bloomberg.com)

24 Jul 2008

July 24 (Bloomberg) -- Brazil's real rose to a nine-year high after the central bank increased its benchmark interest rate to a higher-than-forecast 13 percent yesterday.

Brazil June unemployment at 7.8 percent (AP via Yahoo! Finance)

24 Jul 2008

Brazil's statistics agency says unemployment for June stood at 7.8 percent, essentially stable compared with the 7.9 percent registered in May.

Chile, Brazil Weigh Capital Market Integration Rules (Update1) (Bloomberg.com)

24 Jul 2008

July 24 (Bloomberg) -- Chile and Brazil started talks to coordinate stock market regulation and tighten insider trading rules, in a step toward allowing cross-border trading.