Topic: Brazil

David Kotok, chairman and chief investment officer of Cumberland Advisors, an investment firm based in Sarasota and Vineland, Fla., says domestic deficit woes (and the risk aversion to another bubble) are going to keep the U.S. economy working off debt and sacrificing ...

Are You Ready to Rebound?

Before the recession, many companies relied on boom-time macroeconomic conditions (low interest rates, ready capital, consumer confidence, and the like) to drive profitable growth. Over the past 10 years, I have studied firms that excelled at execution in some of the world ...
Cummins Inc. (CMI) Q4 2009 Earnings Call Transcript February 02, 2010 10:00 am ET. Participating with me today our Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Tim Solso, our President and Chief Operating Officer, Tom Linebarger, and our Chief Financial Officer, Pat Ward.. Turning ...
Banks in Latin America withstood the crisis and the downturn like few others in the global financial system. The notable exception was Mexico, where the deep recession saw lending contract and loan quality deteriorate sharply, especially in consumer lending and credit card ...
Banks in Latin America withstood the crisis and the downturn like few others in the global financial system. The notable exception was Mexico, where the deep recession saw lending contract and loan quality deteriorate sharply - especially in consumer lending and credit ...
As a sign that developing countries have weathered the current recession far better than developing nations, the country of Brazil has earned investment grade status by all three of the major rating agencies including Moody?s, Standard & Poor?s and Fitch Ratings. The ...

U.S. falls 3rd in bank ranking, after UK, Australia

NEW YORK (Reuters) - The United States slipped from first to third place after the U.K. and Australia in a ranking of financial development released by the World Economic Forum on Thursday, as the global financial crisis badly hurt bank stability in ...
The Mosaic Company (MOS) Q1 2010 Earnings Call October 06, 2009 9:00 am ET. (Operator Instructions) Your host for today's call is Christine Battist, Director of Investor Relations of The Mosaic Company. Joining us for the call this morning are Jim Prokopanko, ...
Sometimes I really wonder why bulls on everything else are perma-bears on commodities and commodity stocks. That such high return ratios for commodity stocks cannot be justified. Somewhere like Brazil, where we get 7% inflation and an appreciating currency - if one ...
Brazilian gross domestic product expanded by 1.9% quarter-on-quarter in the second quarter, the government announced on Sept. 11, with a smaller than expected year-on-year contraction of 1.2%. --First, Brazil did not hesitate to implement anti-cyclical measures to counter the negative impacts of ...