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The Brazilian Real continues to weaken versus the dollar.

Most Read Stories from yesterday (April 24, 2018) in Valor Econômico The A Avenues School, a private school funded by private equity, will open a campus in São Paulo and promises to bring changes to elite education in Brazil’s largest city. Kroton, the education group that announced yesterday that it was buying Somos Educação, will announce yet another acquisition of another school as soon as today. Whirlpool sells Embraco, it Brazilian compressor manufacturer to NIDC C...orporation, a Japanese rival in electric motors. Federal Police met on Tuesday in the National Congress to execute nine search warrants in the investigation of Federal Deputy Eduardo da Fonte and Senator Ciro Nogueira. The Minister of the Federal Supreme Court (STF) Marco Aurélio Mello told Valor that he will communicate the president of the Court, Cármen Lúcia, who is ready to take the action proposed by the National Ecological Party (PEN) to challenge the arrest after the conviction in the second instance. Shares of the pharmaceutical firm Hypera lost R$2.8 billion in value in the market since several executives were served search warrants in Operation Tira-Teima. Raízen Energia buys a refinery operation of Shell in Argentina; it is Raízen’s first foray outside of Brazil. Source: Valor See more

Most Read Brazilian News for 4/23/2018 from Valor 1. Kroton, a privately-held education company in Brazil, buys Somos Education for R$4.57 billion. 2. The dollar passed R$ 3.44 and registered its highest level since December 2016. The real suffered along with other Emerging Market currencies, such as the Mexican Peso and the South African Rand. The move is also tied to higher rates in the US as the Fed tightens monetary policy and the market is concerned about inflation. S...ee from Bloomberg below. 3. Brazil and five other countries suspend participation in Unasur: the chancellors from Brazil, Argentina, Paraguay, Colombia, Chile, and Peru informed the President Pro-Tem of the Union of South American Nations, Fernando Huanacumi, that they are suspending, for an indeterminate period of time, their participation in the meetings of the organization. The nations feel that the organization is paralyzed because the chancellor from Venezuela, with the support of Ecuador and Bolivia, vetoed the nomination of the Argentinian candidate for Secretary-General. 4. Guardia, the Brazil Finance Minister, classified the approval of a tax reform by the end of this year as essential and necessary. 5. The financial markets see higher inflation in 2019. The projections revealed a median estimate of 4.07% for the coming year versus 3.56% for 2018. 6. Mario Abdo Benítez is elected the new President of Paraguay. Benítez’s father was the personal secretary of Alfredo Stroessner, the despotic military leader who ruled Paraguay from 1954 to 1989. 7. Jaraguá reformulates plans to restructure its debt. Jaraguá, which constructs factories and industrial systems, was one of the first companies affected by the Car Wash corruption probe. Source: Valor Economico