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Brazil's budget deficit nears pandemic-era levels as fiscal concerns linger - Yahoo Finance

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Brazil ran a primary deficit of 0.74% of GDP in 2024 — the worst fiscal position since the pandemic year when the government handed out cash and called it solidarity. The 2025 target is 0.0%, which would require spending discipline Brazil has not shown since the mid-1990s. Lula's coalition just rejected a proposal to cap pension increases. The math has not changed; the willingness to do it has not appeared.

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Hedge Funds Pile Into Fuels as U.S. Supply Squeeze Deepens

For the first four months of the war between the United States and Israel and Iran, oil traders remained largely bearish. The overwhelming expectation was that the war would end soon—even as July rolled around—and oil flows out of Hormuz would recover. Instead, the world is slipping into a fuel shor

Brazil's budget deficit nears pandemic-era levels as fiscal concerns linger - Yahoo Finance

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Hedge Funds Pile Into Fuels as U.S. Supply Squeeze Deepens

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