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Vale hires advisers for oil and gas assets
Brazilian miner hires Citibank and Scotiabank with a view to either selling the assets or spinning them off into a new company

Repsol cancels LNG shipments to Argentina
Spanish group scraps nine deliveries of liquefied natural gas worth $360m in wake of YPF seizure over alleged ?contract violations? by Buenos Aires

Brazil stimulus fails to raise growth
Contraction makes Brazil?s growth second slowest in Latin America and comes as Asia?s major emerging markets, China and India, are also decelerating

Banks poised to seize YPF stake
Petersen Energía has defaulted on a loan from Credit Suisse, Goldman Sachs, BNP Paribas and Itaú that was used to fund its purchase of YPF shares

Rakuten leads $100m Pinterest investment
Japanese ecommerce group leads $100m investment round in the social scrapbooking site that has been rapidly gaining users in the US

Dalglish contract terminated by FSG
Liverpool?s poor league finish and a badly handled racism row has forced the exit of one of the most revered figures in the football club?s history

Google to unveil search results overhaul
Its detailed ?Knowledge Graph? display ? the internet giant?s biggest online shake-up in five years ? is likely to again draw fire from rivals

Rising costs cut Petrobras profits
Brazil?s state-run oil company, posted a 16 per cent drop in net income for the first quarter after government policies to protect domestic consumers eroded profits

Brazil sugar production costs rise
Even with abundance of sunshine, water and land suitable for cane production, the advantages of once vaunted low South American cost base is eroding

Lufthansa bid to Tap into LatAm market
The German airline, which is keen to play a role in the industry?s consolidation, is likely to launch a bidding war for the Portuguese flag carrier

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