Bloomberg Brazil’s Real advanced on speculation that President Dilma Rousseff will be impeached and as the central bank refrained from moving to weaken the currency. Stocks dropped as a decline in oil and iron-ore prices dimmed the outlook for Brazilian producers. The currency strengthened 0.2 percent to 3.5582 per dollar, extending its gain this year to 11 percent, the …

  Bloomberg It’s been a wild few weeks in the agriculture markets. Floods in Argentina and drought in Brazil have sent futures markets from Chicago to Paris into a tizzy, with corn, soybean and wheat prices surging in the first half of last week before slumping back down. While Louis Dreyfus Co.’s chief executive officer has said 2015 was defined …

  Bloomberg Argentina is considering submitting a bill to congress that would allow the state pension manager to sell as much as 70.6 billion pesos ($5 billion) of shares in publicly traded companies, according to a person familiar with the government’s plans. President Mauricio Macri’s government may submit the proposal before July or issue a decree to modify the pension …