Rio De Janeiro / Bloomberg Dilma Rousseff’s supporters are almost cheerful, missing no opportunity to proclaim that the political crisis that shook Brazil in 2015 and led to impeachment proceedings against the president has lost momentum. In private, they are worried. Their main concern is that an almost two-year probe into a scheme of kickbacks in return for political favors …

New York / AFP Argentina has reached a deal to settle with a group of holders of eurobonds it defaulted on 15 years ago, a US court mediator in its debt battle said. Mediator Daniel Pollack announced that the country reached a deal in principle with the “Brecher Class” of “holdout” creditors, to repay them 100 percent of the principal …

Ottawa / Bloomberg It’s been a dismal start to the year for Canada’s newspapers, and investors see little sign of a turnaround. Postmedia Network Canada Corp., owner of many of the country’s newspapers, announced in January it was merging newsrooms in cities where it has two papers, eliminating dozens of jobs. Torstar Corp., publisher of the country’s largest circulation paper, …