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IMF raises Brazil's growth forecast for 2026 from 1.9% to 2.4% by 2027

IMF raises Brazil’s growth forecast for 2026 from 1.9% to 2.4% by 2027

He International Monetary Fund, IMF, revised upward Brazil’s growth forecasts in 2026. In a report published on Wednesday, the entity now estimates that Brazilian GDP will grow 2.4% this year, an increase of 0.5 percentage points compared to the forecasts published in April. By 2027, the new estimate of IMF It is an expansion of ...

SpaceXAI and Cursor present Grok AI model for coding and finance tasks

SpaceXAI and Cursor present Grok AI model for coding and finance tasks

SpaceXAI has presented a new artificial intelligence model created in collaboration with AI coding startup Cursor, designed to be more effective in financial, legal and programming tasks, in an attempt by Elon Musk’s company to gain ground on rivals as Anthropic PBC and OpenAI. The software, called Grok 4.5, marks the first AI model developed ...

Sánchez recognizes defeat days after Fujimori was proclaimed president of Peru

Sánchez recognizes defeat days after Fujimori was proclaimed president of Peru

The leftist Roberto Sanchez recognized his defeat days after the right-wing Keiko Fujimori was proclaimed as president-elect of the country, according to a release released on Monday by his Together for Peru party and two allied groups. Fujimori She was officially announced last week as the winner of the second election on June 7, with ...

Poverty in Paraguay registered 3.6% in the last year due to an increase in social spending

Poverty in Paraguay registered 3.6% in the last year due to an increase in social spending

The president of Paraguay, Santiago Pena, highlighted the reduction of poverty and the strengthening of government housing and feeding school during the presentation of its annual report on social indicators before the National Congress. During his speech, the president stated that, between 2022 and 2025, around 493,000 people left poverty and 180,000 emerged from extreme ...

Study revealed negative salaries, economic pessimism and Milei wear and tear

Study revealed negative salaries, economic pessimism and Milei wear and tear

Inflation stopped occupying the extreme levels of concern that marked much of recent years, but that did not necessarily translate into a perceptible improvement for broad sectors of society. Salary, the ability to make ends meet and expectations about the immediate future are once again among the main concerns of Argentines. At the same time, ...

The number of deaths after the earthquakes in Venezuela has already risen to 2,954 people

The number of deaths after the earthquakes in Venezuela has already risen to 2,954 people

The official death toll in Venezuela from last week’s two earthquakes rose to almost 3,000. Authorities reported 2,954 deaths and 16,592 injuries in the government’s latest update, a figure higher than the 2,645 deaths reported the previous day. The number of injured increased by approximately 4,000. Relatives of the missing continue to pressure authorities to ...

NATO leaders will meet in Ankara to reduce tension with Donald Trump

NATO leaders will meet in Ankara to reduce tension with Donald Trump

The leaders of the NATO They will meet next week in Ankara, where the Europeans aim to ease disagreements with US President Donald Trump over Iran and Greenland, and demonstrate that they are stepping up to defend the continent, while Washington cuts its commitments to the alliance. The Secretary General of NATO, Mark Ruttesays the ...

Oil continues to decline as more barrels flow through Strait of Hormuz

Oil continues to decline as more barrels flow through Strait of Hormuz

Oil prices have continued their slide to pre-war levels as flows through the Strait of Hormuz increase and traders grapple with signs of oversupply. Brent futures fell below $71 a barrel, hitting their lowest level since the week before the war with Iran began in late February. West Texas Intermediate (WTI) fell from US$68. Last ...

The United States creates more than 50,000 new jobs and slows down the labor market

The United States creates more than 50,000 new jobs and slows down the labor market

He Department of Labor The United States said on Thursday that 57,000 jobs were created in June, below expectations, compared to a figure of 129,000 in the previous month. However, a survey of 70 economists conducted by Reuters had predicted that job creation would reach 110,000 new positions. The US unemployment rate fell to 4.2% ...

Nestlé will eliminate artificial colors from all its products by the end of 2026

Nestlé will eliminate artificial colors from all its products by the end of 2026

Nestle plans to eliminate artificial food coloring from all of its products globally by the end of 2026, a senior executive told The Associated Press on Tuesday. Reuters, which makes it the first large company in the sector to take this step. The goal, which has not been reported before, comes as companies face increasing ...