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To: THE ANT who wrote (72991)	4/11/2011 3:04:12 PM
From: elmatador	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 217764

Banco do Brasil eyes US lender Eurobank, a regional lender based in Miami, for an undisclosed amount the people said. Acquiring the bank, which has three branches in Florida, would give Banco do Brasil a vital foothold in the US market as well as access to lucrative money remittances from the state’s Latin American residents. Message 27301498

To: THE ANT who wrote (72991)	4/15/2011 5:04:21 AM
From: elmatador	1 Recommendation Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 217764

I will offer USD100K to Experiment for her not to go to college and use the money to go into business. Emulating Peter Thiel (Paypal founder): he caused a stir by establishing the Thiel Fellowship, which will select 20 college students under the age of 20 and pay them $100,000 each to drop out of college and embark on entrepreneurial careers. That is about BRL 160K. If she gets ten other kids from Positivo (her school) to do the same, the group will have a million dollars to go into business. The parents will act as Angels (see Silicon Valley) to help the kids set up the business.

To: THE ANT who wrote (72991)	4/25/2011 5:52:33 AM
From: elmatador	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 217764

Can Brazilians Save South Florida Real Estate? If south Florida’s real estate market returns from the dead, thank a Brazilian. Brazil’s upper middle class have been buying properties in Miami and Orlando since the 1990s, when high interest rates and high taxes forced many of them to invest overseas in a way to avoid tax authorities. Now, the middle class is buying up Florida properties, mainly in Miami, thanks to a strong currency, and more spending power than they have had in a generation, a Folha de São Paulo study revealed on Monday. According to the Association of Foreign Real Estate Investors (AFIRE), Miami’s improving real estate market is due mainly to Brazil’s rising GDP. “Wealth creation in Brazil is now starting to look for cross-border opportunities, and Miami certainly is a natural,” says Terra Blanca, CEO of Blanca Commercial Real Estate in Real Estate Journal Online last week. Greater Downtown Miami’s condo supply is overstocked, according to AFIRE . South Florida, and Miami especially, could come to depend on attracting foreign buyers like Brazilians while the US job market, and US incomes, continue to hobble along. Real estate prices are rising in Brazil, and still declining in south Florida. A recent Franklin Templeton survey of foreign investors in some emerging markets showed that 70% of the 1,004 Brazilians surveyed said they would be putting money to work overseas this year. The average within the emerging markets surveyed was 62%. Miami is ranked a distant 8th for foreign investment in real estate. New York, Washington, DC, Boston and San Francisco were the top four, according to Real Capital Analytics. Thanks to the bursting of the housing bubble in 2008, the US is currently ranked as the best place for capital appreciation in the world real estate markets, according to Real Capital.