Rio De Janeiro / Bloomberg Cheniere Energy Inc. expects to ship the first cargo of liquefied natural gas to Brazil with another tanker to be loaded a few days later, marking the historic start of U.S. shale gas exports and boosting its shares to the highest level in a month. The Asia Vision tanker will carry the first shipment of ...

Panama City / BLOOMBERG Panama’s free trade zone — the biggest in Latin America — is in crisis in large part because of economic woes sapping major export customers Venezuela and Colombia, Commerce Minister Augusto Arosemena said. “The patient (the Colon Free Trade Zone) is in a coma because re-exports have gone down and some companies have closed,” he told ...

Bloomberg For farmers who grow some of the biggest U.S. crops, choosing what to plant this year has become a bet on which one will lose less money. A three-year plunge in prices has sent farm income to the lowest in more than a decade and left parts of the Midwest agricultural economy in recession. While growers probably would lose ...