Bloomberg Conditions in the $5.3 trillion foreign-exchange market have turned supportive for one of the most popular trading strategies — the carry trade. Returns from the technique, in which investors borrow in currencies with low interest rates and use the proceeds to buy an asset with higher rates, advanced this week to the highest levels since December, according to …

  Bloomberg Brazil shed more than 100,000 formal jobs in March as a second year of recession pummels a labour market that’s not expected to improve in 2016 regardless of how President Dilma Rousseff’s impeachment process plays out. The March result of 118,776 jobs lost marked the 12th straight month of employment decline, the longest run of negative prints since …

  Bloomberg Citigroup Inc. and U.S. Bancorp agreed to sell their Brazilian credit-card joint venture to Stone Pagamentos SA, according to an e-mailed statement from the Sao Paulo-based payments company. The deal gives the venture, Elavon do Brasil Solucoes de Pagamento SA, an enterprise value of more than 300 million reais ($84 million), according to a person familiar with the …