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• Global economic slowdown may prompt Brazil to reassess policy

  Global economic slowdown may prompt Brazil to reassess policy

  Central Bank President Alexandre Tombini says Brazil is better positioned to weather adversity than during the 2008 global credit meltdown.

• Brazil may break car agreement with Mexico

  Brazil may break car agreement with Mexico

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• Brazil to reassess policy during global economic slowdown

  Brazil to reassess policy during global economic slowdown

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• Brazil seeks investors to improve airports before World Cup

  Brazil seeks investors to improve airports before World Cup

  When Brazil hosts the 2014 World Cup, it will face the huge challenge of ferrying millions of soccer fans, players and officials around a continent-sized country for 64 matches that will be played in 12 cities. Right now many of its airports are barely up to the task of handling rapidly growing domestic air traffic, but Brazil has begun a process of inviting in private investors and granting concessions to renovate and manage airports across the country.