Hamilton, 22, said he believed the advantage would ebb and flow between the two men in the remaining Japanese, Chinese and Brazilian races, just as it had so far this season.
Like the French, Portenos love food, and the gastronomic scene is varied, from local parrillas (grill houses) serving juicy steaks to sophisticated gourmet restaurants and an array of ethnic eateries with influences from Japanese to Indian to Brazilian.
You should have exposure to Japanese yen, euros and Brazilian reals only if you really want to bet against the dollar.
And mixed martial arts, where athletes combine Japanese, Chinese, Thai, Brazilian and American fighting styles, has exploded as a professional sport.
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If Japanese investors were to repatriate that money sitting in Brazilian debt, it would cause the Brazilian real to weaken and Brazilian local bond prices to decline.
In search of profitable opportunities, Bridgewater buys and sells more than a hundred different financial instruments around the world from Japanese bonds to copper futures traded in London to Brazilian currency contracts which explains why it keeps a close eye on Greece.
It worked at Nissan, where Carlos Ghosn, a Brazilian-born Frenchman, turned the struggling Japanese carmaker into a hugely profitable concern.
As I discussed last week, Japanese investors have been making a large bet on the Brazilian economy, and negative sentiment on the emerging markets by US investors is making them ones to watch.
It will extend offerings farther by making available a free trial of social networking services LotusLive Engage and LotusLive Connections in Brazilian Portuguese, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese and Spanish.
Japanese banks borrow at near zero rates locally, and buy up Brazilian bonds internationally.
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In 1970, the Japanese Consul-General in Sao Paulo, Nobuo Okuchi, was kidnapped by Brazilian revolutionaries.
For a Japanese, a South Korean, an Indonesian or even, increasingly, a Brazilian, that will be no surprise.
Nomura based its case on a stronger real short term on the fact that Japanese fixed income investors are still in love with the currency, pouring billions into Brazilian bonds and bank CDs in August.
Recently, I was told that in the United States, Russian and Brazilian customers are taking up some of the slack caused by the absence of Japanese and Chinese customers.
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Interest rates of 11.75% in Brazil make for an attractive carry-trade for Japanese banks, who can borrow money at near-zero interest rates and invest in Brazilian government bonds or bank deposits paying double digit yields.
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One Brazilian executive with a European manufacturer says that the government will not lower the tariffs until the Japanese invest locally on such a scale that they will supply the market that way.
These days she is placing large bets on Brazilian bonds, leading to the quip that although Tokyo failed to secure the 2016 Olympics, the Japanese will finance the games in Rio de Janeiro anyway.
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