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 …