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Brazil’s Americanas board to remove top executives after accounting scandal
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Argentina likely to see inflation tick up this year -analysts
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Brazil’s finance ministry to back minimum wage increase starting in May -sources
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Mexico in talks with top carmakers to make electric vehicles, foreign minister says
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Germany’s Scholz: EU wants to avoid subsidy race with U.S.
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Lula’s latest attack on Brazil’s central bank weighs on markets
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Brazil’s industrial output falls in 2022, gloomy scenario likely to continue
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