Bloomberg Brazil analysts reduced their 2016 economic growth forecast for the ninth straight week as a political crisis grips the nation and further dims the outlook for turnaround. Economists lowered their 2016 economic forecast to a contraction of 3.6 percent, and reduced their 2017 outlook for the first time in more than a month to 0.44 percent growth, according to ...

Bloomberg Canadian regulators extended by three months Petroliam Nasional Bhd.’s application to build a liquefied natural gas terminal on the nation’s Pacific coast so the Malaysian company can provide more information about the project’s environmental impacts. The Canadian Environmental Assessment Agency announced the extension in a filing after Pacific NorthWest LNG, as the project is known, detailed changes to its ...

Bloomberg Chile’s economy grew less that expected in the fourth quarter, expanding at the second-slowest pace in six years, as two years of weak growth was exacerbated by a renewed decline in manufacturing. Gross domestic product grew 1.3 percent from a year earlier, the central bank said on its website. From the previous quarter, GDP expanded 0.1 percent. Increased fiscal ...