Soybean exports could account for fifth of Brazil's economic growth this year. Investors are increasingly looking to emerging markets, partly because the US might lower interest rates next year. Lula's government is making reforms that could spur economic growth as well.
Crown Prince Muhammad bin Salman says a presence in top-level global sport is one route to modernising; critics call the effort a distraction from the country’s appalling human-rights record. Brazil’s government is pushing reforms that are clearly calming investors, who had fretted about a return to ruinously spendthrift policies (9:20). And how speedy “first-person-view” drones are changing the fight in Ukraine (16:25).
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