The combination of greed, ego and charisma has been a common characteristic of many that have lost fortunes for their investors’ and Eike Batista is one of the largest examples.  He built an empire of businesses, capitalizing on the excitement surrounding the emergence of the Brazilian economy utilizing other people’s money primarily.  The most poignant...Read More

Although Brazil sits on vast oil reserves and should be one of the primary growth regions for global supplies, the domestic oil equities such as Petrobras (PBR) and OGX Petroleio e Gas Participacoes have struggled.  A big reason for this is the effort to try and produce as much as possible using domestic companies, when...Read More