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Time for Brazil to sharpen its diplomatic skills

After months of street protests and political revolt led Brazil’s legislature to suspend Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff and put her on trial for fraud, it’s too early to say how the caretaker government will fare in her place. Little-loved interim President Michel Temer will be contending with both the fallout from the country’s toxic corruption scandal and a record economic ...

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Abu Dhabi stocks in worst run since Oct as Gulf markets drop

  BLOOMBERG Abu Dhabi stocks posted their longest losing streak since October amid a slump in trading across Gulf Arab equity markets as investors held out for more than a $1 billion worth of rights issues. The ADX General Index fell 1.1 percent, declining for the sixth straight day. Emirates Telecommunications Group Co., or Etisalat, the largest phone company in ...

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Hedge funds choking on momentum stocks take another bite

  Bloomberg Hedge funds are piling into the same shares that zapped their returns at the start of the year. They just added momentum stocks for a fifth consecutive quarter, according to an Evercore ISI analysis of 13F filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Those shares, loosely defined as the ones that went up the fastest in the past ...

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