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13.10.26 - 21:21
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"Busiest Week Ever": Goldman′s Trading Desk Sees Rush Into Brazil After Bolsonaro′s First-Round Win (ZeroHedge)
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"Busiest Week Ever": Goldman's Trading Desk Sees Rush Into Brazil After Bolsonaro's First-Round Win
Brazil's general elections earlier this month sparked a right-wing wave at the polls. Though most polls forecast socialist President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva narrowly leading in the first-round presidential race, right-wing Sen. Flávio Bolsonaro beat the unhinged leftist by around 2 percentage points.
Bolsonaro and Lula now head to an October 25 runoff, with the latest polls putting Bolsonaro ahead.
A PoderData/Aya survey released earlier today put Bolsonaro at 51% of valid votes and Lula at 49%, a statistical tie within the poll's 1.8-percentage-point margin of error. Bolsonaro's lead narrowed to 2 percentage points from 6 in the October 8 poll. The senator lost 2 points while Lula gained 2 points in the latest survey, conducted over the weekend.
A separate BTG Pactual/Nexus poll released today showed Bolsonaro ahead by a wider margin, with 52% of valid votes against Lula...
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09.10.26 - 02:57
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"We Can′t Be Part Of A Lost Generation": Bolsonaro Wins Four Key Party Endorsements Ahead Of Brazil Runoff (ZeroHedge)
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"We Can't Be Part Of A Lost Generation": Bolsonaro Wins Four Key Party Endorsements Ahead Of Brazil Runoff
In a postmortem published Wednesday on Sunday's first-round Brazilian presidential election, Alberto Ramos, Goldman Sachs' chief Latin American economist, described a "conservative wave" that swept the country, culminating in right-wing Senator Flávio Bolsonaro's win over unhinged socialist President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva.
Bolsonaro's momentum continued mid-week after he secured endorsements from four center-right parties, strengthening his coalition ahead of the October 25 runoff election against Lula.
Bloomberg reports that Uniao Brasil, Progressistas, Republicanos and Novo backed Bolsonaro on Wednseday, one day after former rival Ronaldo Caiado backed him.
"We can't be part of a lost generation," Sao Paulo Governor Tarcísio de Freitas told Bolsonaro at a Republicanos event late Wednesday.
Freitas added, "We have to deliver on ...
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