During a conference held on the future of Pernambuco Estate in Brazil, three major development projects in the region were introduced which will create hundreds of thousands of jobs and lead to the creation of entirely new cities in the region.
Most interest in investing in the Pernambuco region has come from UK investors to date, whereby Bedrock has been highlighted as one of the key investors, allocating funds on behalf of their clients.
Maurice Ephrati explained the macro- and, more importantly, micro-factors of the projects and the importance of the infrastructure developments in the region as part of the multi-billion development programme.
This month we discuss an Iran ceasefire that finally won its signatures and the oil unwind that followed, Kevin Warsh’s first meeting at the Fed and the real-rate squeeze it set off, a blockbuster SpaceX debut that soared then drifted, and a memory shortage that turned an Asian semiconductor selloff into a story about demand, with a change of government in Britain and the ECB’s first hike in two years rounding out a busy month.
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