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Let’s take a look at the headlines from business and economy in Brazil this week:

• Vale eyes Brazilian fertilizer assets, Financier Worldwide
• Vale deve roubar mercado de gigantes da mineração neste ano, Estadão
• Brazil Alupar completes $141 million debenture issue, Wall Street Journal
• Brazil Petrobras signs deal…, Wall Street Journal
• Azul transporta 2.2 milhões de passageiros em seu primeiro ano, Estadão
• Bovespa garante alta…, Globo

Make sure you give it a go with the Portuguese articles!

Estadão announced today that Bovespa, the Brazilian stock market located in São Paulo, closed the year with the highest gains of any stock market in the world. It closed at a high of 120.9 percent, compared to 118 percent in Indonesia, 25.4 percent in the United States, and 6.7 percent in Japan.

This percentage is based on dollars, in a system to measure stock market performance. It was created by MSCI, Inc, a division of Morgan Stanley.

Despite the encouraging economic achievements, Brazilian economists expect a more volatile year in 2010 with smaller gains.

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Let’s take a look at some of the business headlines from Brazil this week:

Portuguese

• Lucro da Petrobras recua, Zero Hora
• Ampliação da matriz de energia é uma das saídas para evitar novos apagões, Correio Braziliense
• Petrobras anuncia descoberta de jazida de petróleo leve na Bacia de Campos, G1
• Brasil gera 230,000 empregos e tem melhor outubro da historia, Folha
• Bovespa fecha em alta, Terra/Reuters

English

• Dell to launch smartphone…in Brazil, Wall Street Journal
• Repsol to invest up to $15 billion in Brazil by 2020, Bloomberg
• Brazil Petrobras considers ending Iran operations, Wall Street Journal