Bloomberg Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff’s struggle for political survival is spilling into the streets, after the latest chapter in a sweeping corruption probe escalated tension in Latin America’s largest country. Following police questioning on Friday of Rousseff’s predecessor Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva into allegations of bribes for favors, friends and foes of the government have started to mobilize in ...

Bloomberg The extra yield U.S. 10-year Treasuries offer over their German peers widened to the most since January as U.S. economic data kept alive prospects of the Federal Reserve raising interest rates this year, which contrasts with the European Central Bank’s accommodative stance. Treasuries fell a second day on Monday, with the 10-year note yield rising to the highest level ...

Luxembourg / AFP She fled Cuba with her bourgeois family as revolution brewed, and later married into one of Europe’s royal dynasties. Today, as the Communist-ruled island emerges from long economic isolation, Luxembourg’s Grand Duchess Maria Teresa says she hopes to return home to pitch the cause of micro-credit to help the country’s poor. A Unesco goodwill ambassador, Maria Teresa, ...