In just over three weeks, troubled Brazilian waste management company Ambipar Participações e Empreendimentos SA went from reassuring investors to the verge of filing for bankruptcy. Ambipar, which offers services ranging from hazardous waste disposal to soil remediation in more than 40 countries, had seen its dollar bonds steadily fall as compliance investigations, rating warnings ...
The Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado was awarded the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize, in recognition of his defense of democracy against authoritarianism in Venezuela. The Norwegian Committee highlighted its role in promoting free elections and building a citizen movement that seeks to restore fundamental rights and freedoms in its country. The Committee added that ...
As Americans heeded a slogan and actually ate more chicken during the beef rise, poultry producers made big profits. Now, falling chicken prices could be ending that upward trend. U.S. chicken spot prices have fallen 18% from their peak in the summer barbecue season, while key production indicators suggest that supply is finally catching up ...
Brazilian exports of vacuum meat to China increased 38.3% in September compared to the previous year, reaching 187,340 tonsindustrial group Abrafrigo reported on Wednesday, which helped boost total monthly exports to an all-time high. China is the largest market for Brazilian vacuum meatand has increased its purchases as part of its broader strategy to avoid ...
Consumer prices in Chile rose 0.4% in Septemberin line with expectations, reported on Wednesday the state National Institute of Statistics, INE. In twelve months, inflation increased 4.4%, above the Central Bank’s tolerance range of between 2 and 4%. In August, consumer prices had not changed but 12-month inflation had moderated to 4%. Economists consulted by ...
French President Emmanuel Macron asked his outgoing Prime Minister, Sébastien Lecornu, to negotiate a way to stabilize the government in the next 48 hours. Macron confided in Lecornu “the responsibility to carry out final negotiations before Wednesday night in order to define a platform for action and stability for the country”according to a statement issued ...
Senior Trump administration officials have discussed taking a stake in Critical Metals Corp, four people close to the discussions told Reuters. which would give Washington a direct interest in the largest rare earths project in Greenland, the Arctic territory that President Donald Trump suggested buying. If finalized, the deal would be another political turn for ...
The Economist – Mexico City The president of Mexico, Claudia Sheinbaum, received the National Palace on Tuesday, Michelle Bachelet. Through her social network X account, the federal president shared a photograph of the meeting, in which she was accompanied by Foreign Minister Juan Ramón de la Fuente y the head of the Ministry of Environment ...
The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics 2025 to John Clarke, Michel H. Devoret and John M. Martinis for the discovery of the Macroscopic Quantum Tunnel effect and the quantification of energy in an electrical circuit. Quantum mechanics, that branch of physics that governs the behavior of subatomic particles, describes ...
Israeli planes and tanks bombed areas throughout the Gaza Strip overnight and on Sunday, ddestroying several residential buildings, according to witnesses, as Palestinians hoped that a US plan to end the war would soon alleviate their suffering. US President Donald Trump, who had called for an end to the bombing, said on his Truth Social ...
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