Month: April 2016
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Brazil’s president Dilma Rousseff is impeached
• The impeachment vote is still going on in the country’s lower house, but the ruling Workers Party has conceded defeat, reports Reuters. At the moment, of 412 votes cast, 307 have voted to impeach President Rousseff, and 101 have voted against. A total of 344 are needed to send the process over to the…
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Blackstone denies seeking to acquire Brazil mall operator
Investment firm Blackstone Group LP (BX.N) on Sunday said it is not considering an acquisition of Brazilian shopping mall operator BR Malls Participacoes SA (BRML3.SA), denying a report published early in the day by newspaper O Globo.”We are not actively engaged in acquisition discussions for BR Malls,” Blackstone said in an emailed statement. The Brazilian…