Since 1995, the total number in detention (including those awaiting trial) in Brazil has risen by 50% to 220, 000, of whom 71, 000 are being held in police cells.
Indeed, the greenback is up 26% on Brazil's real and 50% on Poland's zloty.
On August 31, 2011, Brazil unexpectedly cut rates by 50 basis points, and since then, ISI says 228 stimulative monetary and fiscal policy moves have been initiated across several countries, including the Philippines, China, France, and Colombia.
Brazil service sector PMI fell below 50 on Tuesday to 49.7, down from around 54 last month.
That title goes to Russia and Brazil, where 54% and 50% of respondents, respectively connect to social networks in an average week, while in the US, only 46% do.
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There's room for more growth: credit amounted to just 50% of GDP in Brazil in 2007, compared with 169% in America, according to the World Bank.
Cesar Cielo of Brazil holds the world record in the 50- and the 100-meter freestyle, but to win in London, he'll have to overcome Australia's James Magnussen.
The son of a journalist, Mr. Nossiter was born in the U.S. but has lived in several countries, including England, France, Brazil and now Italy, where the 50-year-old has settled with his wife and three children.
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Second, from August 18th, Brazil's television stations must carry 50 minutes a day of campaign advertising, which could allow less well-known candidates (such as Ciro Gomes, a maverick former finance minister) to grab enough votes to force a run-off.
Emeralds mined in Brazil and South Africa tend to trade at a 50% discount to Colombian stones.
Anything over 50 is considered a positive, but Brazil is running backwards at this point in the game.
Adding insult to injury is the fact that Brazil currently has its lowest interest rates in more than 50 years.
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For now, the iShares MSCI Brazil (EWZ) exchange traded fund is trading below its 50 and 100 day simple moving averages.
Already launched in the UK, France, Italy, Singapore, Germany, Brazil and China, this will be expanded to more than 50 countries all over the world in 2010.
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Recent discoveries, such as the Tupi Field, which is expected to hold between 50 and 100 billion barrels of oil equivalent, prompted Brazil's government-owned Petrobras to boast that they would double Exxon Mobil in size by 2020.
You have to go back about 16 months when Brazil kicked off the latest global easing cycle by cutting interest rates by 50 basis points.
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Despite having posted user growth of 300% and 132% in Brazil and India respectively last year, the U.S. accounts for over 50% of revenue.
Android smartphone vendors have employed 50-60% lower price with inferior hardware highly successfully against Apple in Brazil, India and China.
And reports are circulating in China about local investors buying 50, 000 hectares of farmland in Argentina, and considering other investments in Argentina and Brazil.
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Operating profit across the whole of Santander Group rose 1.6% to 23.6bn euros, thanks to a strong showing at its Latin American businesses in Brazil, Mexico and Chile, which now contribute half of the group's profits, and 50% growth at its small Polish subsidiary.
Somewhere, between the APEC CEO Summit with world leaders in Hawaii, receiving a place on the Thinkers 50, a keynote speech at the Enterprise 2.0 conference, and another trip to Brazil for TEDx USPLeste all on the same day, I had a conversation with Don Tapscott yesterday on the changes terraforming the landscape of business and society.
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The Central Bank of Brazil, headed by new chairman Alexandre Tombini, announced on Thursday that the benchmark Selic rate would be raised 50 basis points to 11.25%, one of the highest in the world.
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