Bloomberg Brazil’s inflation slowed more than all analysts forecast in the month through mid-March as joblessness rises and the economy heads toward its second straight year of contraction. Inflation as measured by the IPCA-15 index decelerated to 0.43 percent from 1.42 percent a month earlier, the national statistics agency said on Wednesday. That compares with the median estimate from 37 ...

Bloomberg Barack Obama will be the first U.S. president to visit Argentina in more than a decade as his counterpart Mauricio Macri seeks a rapprochement with the international community following a decade of financial and diplomatic isolation. Obama, arriving from an historic state visit to Cuba, will meet with Macri and is scheduled to attend a business forum in Buenos ...

Geneva / AFP No foreign power should be permitted to interfere in the ongoing Syrian peace talks in Geneva, the lead government negotiator said, denying that high-level US-Russian meetings in Moscow will impact the process. “When we say that the dialogue must be between Syrians, without outside intervention, this also applies to the Russians and Americans,” Bashar Al Jaafari said. ...