Bloomberg Brazilian education and construction companies dropped on speculation the administration of interim President Michel Temer will seek to cut the social programs they depend on for revenue. Kroton Educacional SA and Estacio Participacoes SA, the country’s two biggest for-profit university operators, were among the worst performers on the Ibovespa stock index after Folha de Sao Paulo newspaper reported ...

  T he Economist recently joined an illustrious group of publications, including the Wall Street Journal, Huffington Post, and South China Morning Post, who have all illustrated a story on soccer in China with a picture of Xi Jinping kicking a soccer ball in Dublin. Only it’s not a soccer ball — in Dublin Xi Jinping was trying his hand ...

  Does it matter how many “likes” does your Facebook post gather when you are a powerful politician? Or how many followers do you have on Twitter? It does in India. Dozens of parliamentarians from the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) have recently been chastised by their leadership for not being active enough on the Net. This is one of ...