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Former Brazil president Bolsonaro’s home raided by Federal Police over fake-vaccine-cards allegation

Bolsonaro spent months sowing doubt about the efficacy of the vaccine and defiantly refusing to get a shot.

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Cinco de Mayo drink specials, deals and freebies from Chipotle, Applebee’s, Taco Bell and more 

With 40% of Americans expected to go out for food or drinks to celebrate Cinco de Mayo, here’s where revelers can score some deals.

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Iran’s Revolutionary Guard seizes oil tanker in Strait of Hormuz

Iran's paramilitary Revolutionary Guard seized a Panamanian-flagged oil tanker in the strategic Strait of Hormuz on Wednesday, the second such capture by Tehran in under a week amid heightened tensions over its nuclear pr...

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Iran’s Revolutionary Guard seizes a second oil tanker in Strait of Hormuz

Iran's paramilitary Revolutionary Guard seized a Panamanian-flagged oil tanker in the strategic Strait of Hormuz on Wednesday, the second-such capture by Tehran in under a week amid heightened tensions over its nuclear pro...

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Argentina’s Fernandez seeks dollar relief from Brazil’s Lula

Argentine President Alberto Fernández and his Brazilian counterpart, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, vowed Tuesday to keep working to come up with a mechanism that would allow them to avoid using the U.S. dollar in trade betwe...

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Biden administration deploys 1,500 active-duty troops to southern border

White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre addresses the move at a press briefing, saying it's "a common practice."

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Colgate-Palmolive’s stock pops after earnings beat as company raises prices by double-digit percentage

Colgate-Palmolive Co.'s stock rises 3.6% Friday after the consumer-goods company posted better-than-expected first-quarter earnings.

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Anglo American says first quarter output rose 9% and backs 2023 forecast.

The FTSE 100-listed diversified mining group kept its production and unit cost guidance for 2023 unchanged across all of its business units.

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3 railroads team up to better compete with CPKC to serve Mexico

Three major freight railroads responded Monday to the Canadian Pacific-Kansas City Southern merger with an agreement to work together on a competing service to carry shipments across North America.

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How big a pay hike are you expecting this year? Americans say they anticipate a 6.7% raise.

Workers may be worried about layoffs, but they also can put stock in the fact they received an average 6.5% salary increase in 2022, according to ADP.

Markets Overview

Ticker Name Last Chg Chg %
SPMERVAL S&P MERVAL Index 297,140.11 15,387.62 5.46%
A1DOW Dow Jones Americas Index USD 943.50 0.35 0.04%