Richard Mann

GUATEMALA · TAXATION Key Facts — What happened: From 1 September, Guatemala's tax agency will pre-fill VAT declarations for the General Regime using electronic-invoice data.

Brazil's federal public defender's office has sued Braskem for at least R$5 billion (US$971 million) over the salt deposits abandoned beneath Maceió. The unusual part is the second defendant: the federal government itself.

Rio de Janeiro · Nightlife If You Only Go to One Place Lapa at Full Strength

— What happened: São Paulo state prosecutors asked a court not to approve GPA's R$4.5 billion (US$873 million) debt plan.

— What happened: Bradesco BBI upgraded state oil company Petrobras to buy after the shares' recent fall made them cheap again.

France has not lost a war, a currency or a bank. It has lost something quieter: a parliamentary majority willing to own a budget — and the markets are beginning to price the absence.

For forty years, Germany's job in the bond market was to borrow little and lend credibility.

São Paulo · Nightlife If You Only Go to One Place Jon Secada at Espaço Unimed

Handing Kyiv the blueprints to a cruise missile was always going to draw a response from Moscow. What arrived was not a protest note but a mobster's sentence: nice factories you have there.

Europe Intelligence Brief for August 31: Europe enters autumn with its lowest gas reserves in thirteen years, Germany's storage stands near half full, and the heating season is weeks away.