Bloomberg Brazil’s far-right presidential candidate, Jair Bolsonaro, received a significant boost in the latest opinion poll published just days ahead of Sunday’s general elections. The former Army captain rose four points to 31 percent in the Ibope survey released Monday evening, compared with 27 percent in the last poll Sept. 26. His nearest rival, Fernando Haddad, from the leftwing Workers’ ...

Bloomberg Russia’s oil production rose to a post-Soviet high last month as the country completely rolled back the output cuts it had agreed on with Opec, then pumped some more. The country produced a record 11.356 million barrels of oil and condensate a day in September, according to data released on Tuesday by the Energy Ministry’s CDU-TEK statistical unit. That’s ...

Bloomberg Iraq exported more than 4 million barrels a day for a second consecutive month in September as buyers sought alternative supplies to Iran ahead of US sanctions. Shipments from Opec’s No. 2 producer were 4.062 million barrels a day, the highest since November 2016 and compared with 4.061 million a day in August, according to Bloomberg calculations from tanker ...