Brazil’s President Lula da Silva was caught off guard by Ukraine’s Volodymyr Zelenskiy’s appearance, with Brazilian officials describing it as a potential “trap”
With more than 8,000 civilians killed in Ukraine, billions of dollars in losses and an impact on the global economy, we look at the human and economic a year since the start of Moscow’s offensive against its neighbor
Roblox Corp.’s popularity in Russia is increasing even as almost every other publicly traded gaming company has retreated from the country after its invasion of Ukraine
It isn’t clear that Ukraine will be able to get any IMF money at all, based on a central institutional tenet that a country borrowing from the fund have a clear path for repaying the organization so that it can lend to the next nation
The president of the invaded country said Latin American countries should join the sanctions imposed on Russia, and called on them to divulge his “truths”
The use of consolidated cargo, sharing containers among companies, brings down shipping costs and speeds up the movement of freight, while companies can import into Guatemala and re-export to other Central American countries, according to industry insiders
Given the damage already done to the economy and markets, the default is also mostly symbolic for now, and matters little to Russians dealing with double-digit inflation and the worst economic contraction in years
In an interview with Bloomberg Línea, Oscar de Bok, CEO of the logistics giant’s supply chain division, advises companies to diversify their sources and adopt ‘omnishoring’
The ‘red tamale’, one of the Central American country’s favorite staple foods, has doubled in price this year, while workers earning the minimum wage struggle to afford milk
Fertilizer and export cost increases, added to production hit by climate change, are pushing up prices of the grain as the region’s producers seek to keep prices accessible to consumers
