Between April 19th and June 1st, around 970 million Indians will be able to choose the parliament representative responsible for defining who will be the country’s next prime minister. It is the biggest election in the world, with seven stages and lasting 44 days. With the largest population in the world, with approximately 1.428 billion […]

At the end of april American President Joe Biden, sanctioned a bill approved by the country’s Congress which aimed to protect North-Americans from apps controlled by adversary nations, more specifically, China. With the approval, ByteDance, which owns TikTok, has nine months (time which can be extended to a year) to sell its operation to an […]

Between 1970 and 2016, Chinese couples could only have one child. The reason behind the government’s measure was to control demographic growth. Now, the country is facing the opposite challenge: to encourage their population to have more children. This is because the birth rate has been falling year after year. According government numbers, China’s population […]

Having money is not enough for a country to be considered developed. In addition to its wealth, a nation needs to ensure that there is equal distribution among its citizens and that everyone has access to a dignified life, which includes health, education and income. The indicator that measures the population’s quality of life is […]

A car, one’s own house, an apartment by the beach… Dreams like these still make the eyes of those that are generation Z youngsters (born between 1997 and 2010) shine, but making those dreams come true can seem so unattainable that many choose to forget them — and settle for a pair of sneakers from […]

Eduardo Feldberg had always wanted to be a successful YouTuber, but he believed that his dream would come true through music, which is his what he studied. Little did he know that an unpretentious video, in which he explained how to use amortization to pay off a 30-year loan in just five years, would go […]

Bitcoin was the most profitable investment of 2023, according to a survey by Economatica, specialized in financial information. The cryptocurrency’s appreciation was 124% in the year, against 17.5% for second place with the Ibovespa. The price of bitcoin was 196,269.42 reais on January 25, 2024. In other words, to have a bitcoin you had to […]

On one side Nathalia Rodrigues, known as Nath Finanças, and her thousands of followers. On the other, Nathalia Arcuri, her brand Me Poupe! and her millions of fans. Between the two, a name in common and the dispute over trademark registrations with the word “Nath”. Both are finance influencers: Arcuri started with Me Poupe! in […]

Zara Index Created by BTG Pactual to compare markets, the Zara Index measures the price of clothes sold in several countries. The bank looks at the prices of 12 Zara products, in 54 locations. In addition, it evaluates the prices of other brands — for these, eight items are researched. The price applied in the […]

The international concert season in Brazil boosted the services sector in November, according to the Pesquisa Mensal de Serviços (PMS), Monthly Services Survey, released by the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics (IBGE), on January 16th. Between October and November, the volume of services in the country increased by 0.4%. The positive number was achieved […]