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• AGRIBUSINESS

  Milk fat shortage affects butter production

  Restricted demand for fat-free milk and rising consumption of butter make prices soar
• BUSINESS

  Crisis paves the way for Tecfil to grow and lead market

  
  Family-owned producer of replacement car filters has been taking advantage of consumer need to spend on maintenance
• BUSINESS

  Call centers reeling from end of payroll-tax breaks

  
  Already tight margins will be further squeezed despite promising prospects from job outsourcing law
• BUSINESS

  Startup BeYou uses contests to help companies design their products

  
  Firm, which expects to break even in three to four months, promotes online challenges in which consumers can choose among potential products
• ECONOMY

  China rises back to top investor position in Brazil

  
  Country received 25% of Chinese investments in 2010 but saw its share drop to almost zero by 2014; 2017 figures so far indicate a 15% share
• POLITICS

  “The government can’t stop,” Eliseu Padilha says

  
  Chief of Staff says government has already compromised all it can in the pension reform and must carry on regardless of Car Wash
• AGRIBUSINESS

  Bumper crop increases credit demand for warehouse construction

  
  But government program is still not enough to relieve storage capacity deficit in Brazil
• BUSINESS

  Silenced factories spread gloom over cities

  Effects of Brazil's worst manufacturing crisis on record go well beyond unemployment data
• BUSINESS

  Cybercrime turns to clients as banks beef up security

  
  Criminals use social engineering, fake homepages and SIM card hacking to swindle account holders
• BUSINESS

  Unemployment and strike undermine Cubatão

  
  Shutdown of Usiminas unit leads layoffs in São Paulo coastal city, which had to adjust its finances to deal with falling tax receipts
• BUSINESS

  Fronteiras loses its only factory in 80 years

  Piauí city revolved around Nassau cement plant now shuttered because of construction industry's crisis
• BUSINESS

  At bus plant in Três Rios, 3 guards instead of 2,000 workers

  
  Body manufacturer Neobus was attracted to city in Rio state by incentive policy but got caught on the economic slump
• BUSINESS

  In three years, furniture hub of Ubá cuts 20% of its jobs

  City is the “furniture capital” of Minas Gerais and has been struggling with severe deindustrialization
• BUSINESS

  In Novo Hamburgo, footwear industry’s crisis leads to crime wave

  Public healthcare system is also overcrowded by workers who used to enjoy insurance benefits
• BUSINESS

  Odebrecht pursues deals to relieve cash squeeze

  
  Damaged by the revelations of Petrobras's corruption scandal, conglomerate hopes asset sales will help it stave off a bankruptcy filing
• BUSINESS

  Conglomerate faces challenges to rebuild reputation

  
  Within 15 to 20 days, all Odebrecht companies will have a new ethics channel to report improper practices
• MARKETS

  Sale of Panamericano to Caixa becomes target of investigation

  
  Police and prosecutors argue that transaction, made in 2009, was harmful to taxpayers
• BUSINESS

  First-quarter earnings expected to show beginning of recovery

  Falling interest rates and stronger real seen as contributing to better financial results, main reason for earnings improvement
• POLITICS

  Labor reform will regulate outsourcing

  
  Lawmakers and experts say current law is poorly written and legally questionable, setting stage for lawsuits; Chamber votes to fast-track bill
• AGRIBUSINESS

  Moinho Globo to raise revenues by 70% within two years

  One of the largest wheat mills in Paraná invested R$100m to double capacity of new unit, which should reach 219,00 tonnes annually at full speed
• POLITICS

  Chamber defeat sounds warning for president

  
  Mistake by speaker ended a failed vote to fast-track labor reform prematurely, casting doubt on government ability to pass unpopular bills
• POLITICS

  Social Security reform brings another round of concessions

  
  Bill sponsor, Deputy Arthur Maia, reduces minimum retirement age for women and includes special pensions for police
• ECONOMY

  Government starts privatizing dock companies

  
  BNDES will conduct study to define concession model for Codesa, operator of two public ports in Espírito Santo
• POLITICS

  High Court justice implicated by OAS testimony

  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Construction company could make first accusations against judiciary members in Operation Car Wash as it battles to sign belated informant deal