Insight: Brazil's leftist president fights to win back business

BRASILIA (Reuters) - The conversations with Brazil's top business leaders often last two hours, and up to four. President Dilma Rousseff asks detailed questions but otherwise listens intently, staring back with an inscrutable frown that occasionally unnerves her guests.

Brazil's BNDES Cuts Interest Rates For Micro, Small Businesses

RIO DE JANEIRO--Brazil's economy is solid and has the capability to grow in the long term, the president of the country's National Development Bank said Tuesday as he announced interest-rate reductions on credit lines for micro, small, medium and large businesses.