“The Clampdown Targets WordPress!”

Acesso ao WordPress pode ser bloqueado no Brasil por ordem judicial: “Access to WordPress could be blocked in Brazil by judicial order!”
Or it could not be.
Counterfactuals have no place in news reporting.
A counterfactual conditional, subjunctive conditional, or remote conditional, is a conditional (or “if-then”) statement indicating what would be the case if its antecedent were [...]

“Tupi Investors Given Exotic Options”

Carteira usa opções exóticas: “Fund uses exotic options,” reports Valor (Brazil).
HSBC introduces what I guess you would define as a closed-end guaranteed investment fund (GIF) for Brazilian individual investors, in the form of some sort of “double barrier option,” I think it is.
I have read books on this subject, but the details tend to fade [...]

“Greenspan Tried in Tropical Absentia”

“It’s all Alan Greenspan’s fault”: Leonardo Attuch interviews William Fleckenstein in IstoÉ Dinheiro No. 549 about his “best-selling book.” The top-selling book on the subject at the moment is The Trillion-Dollar Meltdown, which is No. 16 on the New York Times nonfiction hardcover list. The book does not figure on the BusinessWeek best-seller list at [...]

World Bank: “Stop Shorty Short at the Paraguayan Border”

Capital flows in the domestic market, last twelve months: investments, divestments, net capital inflows (outflows). Source: Tupi central bank
Gazeta Mercantil reports today:
Washington, 10 de Abril de 2008 – O economista-chefe para a América Latina do Banco Mundial (Bird), Augusto de la Torre, recomenda ao Brasil a criação de barreiras contra o ingresso de investimentos externos [...]