The Brazilian real is sliding down a painfully familiar path

Brazil’s real hit its lowest level since it was introduced in 1994 to rescue the country from economic doom.

The currency closed at a historic low of 4.18 real to the US dollar yesterday (Sept. 23) as Brazil struggles with some of the same problems of the early 1990s era: high inflation, budget deficits and a faltering economy.

It may be little consolation to Brazilians, but the economic ills back then were much, much worse. In some years, inflation exceeded 2000%.The exchange rate for the real’s predecessor, the cruzeiro real, was nearly 1,800 per US dollar in 1994.

To restore Brazilians’ faith in their currency, a group of economists established a make-believe currency that was linked to the dollar and remained stable in spite of the jittery cruzeiro.

It worked. The fake currency was later replaced with the real, which started its life at near parity with the dollar.

Given Brazil’s ongoing currency woes, it might be time for another confidence booster.

Property Investment Secrets from Professional Buyers

Property investment has reaped great rewards for many over the years, both for those hoping for a quick return by selling on the property at a profit, and for those with longer term plans in the buy-to-let market. Before you decide to make the leap, make sure you’ve done all the necessary research and know exactly what you’re getting into. There are pitfalls as well as gains.

Know Your Market

You stand more chance of success, with less work, if you’re familiar with the area you plan to buy in.

For instance, if you make the mistake of buying a small studio flat in a remote part of town that’s favoured by affluent families, your pool of potential buyers or renters will be smaller because your target market is looking elsewhere. If you’re aiming to let to students, buy close to a college or university, and young, single professionals tend to favour town centre locations or those close to fast travel links. It may sound obvious, but it’s easy to get carried away with what looks like a bargain and forget the practical aspects of who is going to live there.

Pay Attention to Current Events

Akin to knowing your market, knowing what’s going on in the wider world and how those things might impact the property market in general can pay dividends. In some cases, world affair knowledge can almost provide you with a crystal ball in knowing what, and when, to buy.

For instance, by keeping an eye on the recent financial crisis in Greece, and balancing that against the strong pound and UK independence from the Euro, you may have been able to foresee the recent increase in demand from Greek nationals in the Prime London property sector. Those Greeks with money to spend, looking for a safer investment proposition than currently offered in their own country, took a keen interest in London property around the  £1 million mark.

Organise Your Finances

Before you even start looking at potential properties, get your finances in order. If you need to borrow money, investigate mortgage deals. Independent brokers will give impartial advice on the best mortgage deals currently available, and let you know about the latest developments amongst lenders. One trap not to fall into is to simply walk into your own bank and take the first deal they offer you. There are often far better, more specialised offers around that you’ll only uncover through a diligent search alongside expert advice.

Having got your finances in order, and an offer in principle on the table, you’ll be in a much stronger position to negotiate with sellers for the best price.

Get Buying Help

Because investing in property takes up a huge chunk of money, it pays to use every advantage available to cut down risks and secure great deals. Whether you’re looking for a place to live in personally or you want a property purely for investment, a professional property buyer can prove invaluable. It’s their job to scout out the latest deals and they often have a large network of estate agents, developers, or builders who keep them informed. They also have expert local knowledge, know what’s in the pipeline (such as major town development or renovation, for instance), and can guide you accordingly, preventing costly mistakes.

Property investment is scary and exciting in equal measure. Get it right and the rewards are huge. Take your time, check every step, and you’ll have a far greater chance of success.

The Advantages of Investing In Shares

Each individual living in this world has his own goals and ambitions and during the whole life he tries to make them come true. But for being able to achieve our desired goals one of the most important things that we need to have is money. There are people who monthly put some part of their salary aside or keep piggy banks trying to save some money for the realization of their desires while there is a certain category of people who invest their money in a specific field.

There is such a widely spread opinion that only rich people can enter the boundless world of investments and double their fortune. However that’s not true, as anyone can afford himself to take part in investments. Nowadays, there are many types of investments and each one can easily choose the best variant for him to invest his money.

Today, one of the most common and popular types of investment are considered to be shares. As it is known shares are the small part of each company and if someone owns a share than he owns a little part of the company and becomes entitled to part of its profits. But before doing any investment it is quite vital to do good research and find out everything about the company you are going to invest in. Today, there is a wide choice of well-known companies, where you can invest your money such as Apple, Microsoft, Facebook, McDonald’s, Samsung, Pepsi, etc.

Like any investment, investing in shares also has its advantages and disadvantages. Now, let us see what the main advantages of investing in shares are.

• You become a shareholder

Buying a share, you automatically become a part owner of the company, which in its turn means that you get the right to obtain dividend, which is the part of the profit made by the company at the end of each year. It should be pointed out that the more shares you own the more money you will receive at the end of the year.

• Your capital increases rapidly

One of the main advantages of investing in shares is of course the income you receive. It goes without saying that the price of shares is tend to move up and down which can cause you either get or lose your money. But if  you have chosen the company which is very popular, which has a great demand and in case everything goes right with your investment than be sure to expect high returns.

• Shares are easy to sell and buy

In comparison with other types of investment, shares are quite easy to buy or sell. You can buy a share at a lower price and when the price of the share increases sell it at a higher price. Today, everyone wants to earn money and become a part of the famous companies, so it won’t present any difficulty to sell or buy a share.

By the way, as the world keeps on developing rapidly, each day there happens thousands of innovations and today one of such innovations are CFDs. A CFD (Contract for Difference) is an agreement between two parties, usually known as a buyer and a seller, on the difference of the prices various underlying assets (share, index, commodity, etc.). In other words, the creation of CFDs has made our lives easier, as nowadays you don’t have to waste much time and effort, collect various documents for buying a share of the company. With CFDs it has become much easier and more comfortable. So, without really possessing a share or any other asset, you can also gain much money.

Incidentally, for being able to buy a CFD, you will need the help of a brokerage company. Today, there is a wide range of brokers and each one can easily find the one which best corresponds to his needs. One of such brokers is IFC Markets, a leading CFD broker, which offers a wide range of stock CFDs (German stock, Chinese stock, US stock, Japanese stock and many more).


To sum up with, it should be admitted that before doing any investment, one should think carefully and should be ready to face not only success but also failure.

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Pollution in West Africa’s cities, Nigeria’s unique corruption, growing Africa’s bandwidth

Thinking about the type of corruption that really hampers Nigeria’s economy. It’s often assumed corruption is the only reason for the country’s failure to break past its lower middle income status. The argument is usually that if the billions stolen by corrupt leaders were recovered and invested Nigeria would prosper. But economic development is not an event occurring at a single point in time.

West Africa’s air pollution is reaching dangerously high levels—and we don’t know the worst of it. Air pollution in fast-growing cities like Lagos is reaching dangerous levels, writes Lily Kuo. But the worst part is almost nothing is known about the pollutants emerging from these new urban centers, says a new study.

Chinese investment in Africa is more diverse and welcome than you think. The China-in-Africa narrative has championed the idea the Asian giant’s dealmaking across the continent has been about offering to build much-needed infrastructure in exchange for much-needed natural resources. But new research of the types of deals shows much more nuance.

Kenya’s Julius Yego won the gold medal in javelin after learning how to throw on YouTube. Yego’s throw of 92.72m won the World Championship in Beijing by four meters writes Omar Mohammed, nearing the long-standing world record of 98.48. Remarkably, he was almost entirely self-taught by watching YouTube videos.

Africa’s internet may be slow, but bandwidth capacity is growing faster than anywhere else. Sibusiso Tshabalala explains that research into Africa’s internet capacity shows it’s growing faster than other world regions with a more than 50% annual rise in capacity each year. But that won’t necessarily fix the slow connection speeds.

Chart of the week

Africa’s richest man plans to almost double the continent’s cement production by 2020. Nigeria’s Aliko Dangote has inked a $4.3 billion partnership with Chinese firm Sinoma International to build cement facilities across the continent adding around 25 million tonnes over the next 30 months. But his target is 100 million tonnes by 2020.

Other things we liked

Generating cheap solar electricity. A research team at Stellenbosch University, one of South Africa’s top research universities, have solved a solar puzzle that even Google couldn’t crack: how to generate cheap solar power using small-scale mirrors to concentrate the sun’s energy,the Guardian reports.

African countries and the data revolution. An increase in mobile phone penetration on its own is not enough, African countries can harness this to develop data projects that can help generate solutions for commerce, adminstration and health, writes Neil Lawrence, a professor of machine learning at the University of Sheffield in the UK.

Money didn’t help solve the Ebola crisis, people did. Despite their lack of medical expertise, paramount chiefs, imams, priests and political leaders in Sierra Leone took the lead by passing 30 laws to curb the spread of Ebola in Freetown, the capital of Sierra Leone, writes the Economist.

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East Africa’s leading currencies in Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania are expected to come under even more pressure as global investors flee emerging markets predict analysts to Reuters. But Nigeria’s struggling naira will stabilize in anticipation of dollar sales by the central bank.

Kenya’s leading mobile network Safaricom will hold its annual general meeting onThursday Sept. 3 at the Safaricom Kasarani Stadium. The company is handily winning its ongoing battle with No.2 operator Airtel’s attempts to paint it as a monopoly.

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The Vatican is in damage-control mode after the Pope sent his blessings to a same-sex family

When Francesca Pardi sent Pope Francis her children’s book, Why do you have two moms? she probably wasn’t expecting a response.

In her letter, sent on June 19, Pardi expresses respect for Catholics and says many have treated her well, but also says that representatives of the church have been disrespectful to her same-sex partnership and family, and she asks the Pope to check this behavior (translated from Italian):

Several Catholic organizations have lowered themselves to unworthy behaviors, deliberately deforming reality, the very ones who are meant to demonstrate a superior moral fiber: I would really like for you to stop them.

Pardi also sent the Pope a package of children’s books about untraditional families from her publishing house, Lo Stampatello (link in Italian). Why do you have two moms?, as well as two of Pardi’s other books, have been banned from Venice’s Kindergarten libraries.

But the pontiff did reply, sending a friendly though cautious letter postmarked July 10, via Monsignor Peter Brian Wells.

On her Facebook page, Pardi posted a picture of the envelope addressed to her by the Holy See. She did not post the Pope’s letter itself, but she summarized it (translated here from Italian):

He thanks me for the kind gesture and for the sentiment that motivated it, and hopes for an always more fruitful activity at the service of young generations and sharing authentic human and christian values.

The Pope closes the letter with his “apostle’s blessing” (a special benediction), for Pardi, she said, “together with Ms Maria Silvia Fiengo”—her same-sex partner and the other mother of her four children.

Pardi and others in Italy’s LGBTQ community in Italy took the Pope’s message as a sign of acceptance: In particular, his saying her work is “at the service of young generations” and the fact that he imparted a blessing upon her and her same-sex partner.

(Translated: I only said that the Pope’s message shows capacity of respectful dialogue with those with different way of thinking.)

The Vatican did not deny Pardi’s account of the Pope’s letter—but it made a point to throw cold water on the idea that the leader of the Catholic church was offering encouragement or an accepting message about LGBTQ lifestyles.

Father Ciro Benedettini, the Vatican spokesperson, published a note(link in Italian) asserting that in no way is the letter “meant to endorse behaviors and teachings unfit to the Gospel.” Benedettini also says that the Pope’s blessing was meant for the individual, and was “not in line with the church’s doctrine on gender theory, which has not changed in the slightest.”

Quartz has reached out to both Pardi and the Holy See for comments on the exchange and will update this post with any response.

While the church’s official position is that homosexual acts are a sin, the current Pope has at times hinted at a more tolerant view that have led many to hope for a change in stance—including by famously saying, in 2013, “If someone is gay and he searches for the Lord and has good will, who am I to judge?”

Italy remains a relatively inhospitable place for LGBTQ people. It is one of the few countries in Europe that doesn’t allow any form of same-sex unions, and the Italian government (link in Italian) has gotten an ultimatum from the European court of human rights to work on a law that allowed gay unions.

Many publicly still express hostility towards LGBTQ rights, and among them is the mayor of Venice, Luigi Brugnaro, whose first act in office was banning several children’s books from the city’s Kindergarten libraries, including Pardi’s Little Egg, What’s dad’s secret, and Why do I have two moms?

Several groups, mostly Catholic, have attacked the authors of the books, which media have dismissively called “gay fairytales,” claiming they try to “indoctrinate” kids to prefer gay unions.

But that was never the intention, Pardi said in her letter to the Pope.

“Maria Silvia and I opened the publishing house for the love of our kids,” she wrote. “The book Why do you have two moms? is simply our (their) story.”

“It’s not ideology,” she explained, “but love for a neighbor.”

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