In times of financial dire straits, both the hustler and the corporate honcho become the best management gurus around. They both have some nuggets of wisdom to share. The credit crunch seems to bring out the best in them. Their leadership traits are put to a test and subsequently bloom. There are, however, some more [...]

Brazil is getting ready to break the patents of North American pharmaceutical products if the World Organization of the Trade decides today that the country can make it, in retaliation to the subsidies granted to the North American cotton farmers, it informed the Brazilian press.
Brazil challenged the subsidies of the USA to the cotton in [...]

While the current recession may be pinching them a bit, some of the world’s billionaires see the proverbial silver lining in the global economic rain clouds. Credit their healthy outlook on money, maybe. They earned their billions, so what can stop them from earning more? – well, only the (real) end of the world, perhaps.
Forbes [...]

The International Labor Organization estimates that as much as 231 million will be unemployed this year. The director general of the ILO, Juan Somavia of Chile, says that the financial crisis has become a ‘global job crisis.’ He reports, “The global unemployment could affect 231 million people in 2009, an increase of 52 million as [...]

More people are becoming comfortable with user generated online content. Exactly the reason behind the phenomenal success of Wikipedia. But it‘s one thing to refer an online source of information on your favorite movie or a particular mobile model and quite another to trust a user-generated website for stock information.
Wikinvest is building a database of [...]

In recent years Brazil has become a worldwide exporter of military equipment such as tanks of war, of combat aircraft and missiles.
Brazil will sell one hundred missiles to Pakistan for the detection of radar. The artifacts will be provided by the company Mectron, associate of the National Bank for Economic and Social Development (BNDES). The [...]

The Russian president, Dmitri Medvedev, is going tomorrow in his first Latin American tour, which aims to culminate with the “return” to the region that Russia boosts in recent months.
Medvedev will arrive weekend in Lima, where he will participate the meeting of Heads of State and Government of APEC, will visit Brazil between 24 and [...]