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POLITICS

Chamber of Deputies begins session to vote impeachment

Opposition was counting on 368 votes to approve the proceedings against President Rousseff

ECONOMY

How business leaders turned away from the government

Mood toward the Rousseff administration soured with interventionism and end of benefits to sectors

POLITICS

Rousseff open to supporting new presidential vote

President and Lula taped a statement to be released on social media Friday and Saturday in a last-minute offensive against the impeachment

POLITICS

Party negotiations bolster pro-impeachment faction

PP decides to vote en bloc for President Rousseff’s ouster; government negotiates with legislators individually

MARKETS

Banks reject notion that debt renegotiations mask default rates

Responding to Moody’s report, lenders say that restructured debts may cause more losses if clients indeed will default

COMMENTARY

Claudia Safatle

Fiscal adjustment is the key for recovery

New government would have to present immediately a fiscal program that balances public accounts or reaches a small primary surplus in 2017

Ribamar Oliveira

Tax revenue falls in March and worsens situation

Preliminary data reveal a real decline above 4% of taxes collected directly by the Secretariat of Federal Revenue

Cristiano Romero

The culprits

Dilma Rousseff, Guido Mantega, Nelson Barbosa and Arno Augustin: the names behind the worst crisis

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• BUSINESS

  Vale shareholders discuss new agreement

  Investors fear government intervention in case agreement is not renewed and pension funds are left with most of voting rights
• BUSINESS

  Petrobras business plan includes too optimistic scenario

  Projections picked by management do not take into account track record of delayed projects with cost overruns and disappointing output
• POLITICS

  Senate would vote ouster of Rousseff in mid-May

  
  If the Chamber of Deputies authorizes impeachment proceedings, Senate’s decision about removing president would take three weeks
• MARKETS

  Belief in impeachment makes companies reduce their position on dollar

  
  Businesses have sharply reduced their long positions on the American currency in expectation that currency pressures will ease
• POLITICS

  Odebrecht negotiations with prosecutors stall

  Car Wash investigators want company to identify illegal payments in projects overseas
• POLITICS

  President plans national pact if impeachment is defeated

  
  Dilma Rousseff says she will propose a debate with opposition, workers and business leaders: “Without winners or losers”
• ECONOMY

  Businesses have low confidence on Rousseff and Temer

  
  Founder of drugstore chain Deusmar proposes new elections, while Alpargatas CEO demands technology-focused industrial policy
• MARKETS

  Market will enforce fair prices after merger, BM&FBovepa chief says

  
  Deal with Cetip will provide efficiency gains for investors while helping the exchange make inroads in Latin American market, says Edemir Pinto
• ECONOMY

  Accounting “exception” allows BNDES to pay more dividends

  Development bank helped government finances by paying more to the Treasury than it would have had in earnings under usual accounting standards
• BUSINESS

  Building materials makers revise sales targets for 2016

  Strong exports are not enough to offset lower-than-expected performance in the first quarter and crisis in domestic market
• POLITICS

  New Rousseff coalition starts breaking apart

  
  PP, PRB and PTN decide to support impeachment after being courted intensely by the government ahead of Sunday's Chamber vote
• POLITICS

  PSDB president sets conditions to support Temer government

  
  Aécio Neves says that if impeachment does not pass, process in the Superior Electoral Court will gain momentum 
• POLITICS

  If Rousseff stays, can Lula give a direction to the government?

  
  Analysts say the ex-president wouldn’t have votes in Congress to implement the urgent reforms the country needs
• POLITICS

  Michel Temer studies formation of cabinet

  
  Priority of the vice president, in case he takes the presidency, will be changes in Health, Finance and Foreign Affairs ministries
• POLITICS

  Success of government's regional strategy remains to be seen

  Rousseff and Lula bet on drawing enough support from the North and Northeast to stave off the impeachment but already face some defections
• BUSINESS

  Transmission line auction to attract more investors

  Improvement of financing conditions offered by BNDES is seen as positive, but political and economic crisis may bring surprises
• POLITICS

  Temer acts ahead of Congress vote and talks of period of “sacrifice”

  
  In message to allies that leaked, vice president outlines plans for his administration in a post-impeachment situation
• POLITICS

  Impeachment report gets more votes than government expected

  
  Result of 38 votes against 27 that sent impeachment petition to the plenary weakens one trump card Dilma Rousseff expected to have
• POLITICS

  In leaked speech, VP signals more limited government role

  
  Michel Temer reaffirms very different principles from the economic policies of President Dilma Rousseff
• MARKETS

  Companies struggle with increase in client delinquency

  Among the largest public companies in Brazil, expenses for bad debts grew 38% last year, to R$7.3bn
• BUSINESS

  Blue Tree partners with Best Western to expand amid crisis

  
  Brazil’s eighth largest hotel chain will manage the new units of US giant in the country
• MARKETS

  BM&FBovespa to raise R$2bn for Cetip acquisition

  
  Exchange operator expects to keep leverage ratio below 2 and reduce combined expenses by 10%