Israeli mining company BSG Resources, which has a joint iron-ore mining venture in Guinea with Brazil's Vale SA ( VALE ), intends to sue Brazilian banker Andre Esteves of BTG Pactual and former VALE CEO Roger Agnelli in an effort to halt negotiations underway for the two to become advisers to the ... Cia. Energetica de Minas Gerais ( CIG -12.2% ) and shares of other Brazilian utilities are under pressure on expectations for Brazil's regulator to curb electricity rate increases . Cemig also was downgraded yesterday at Standpoint Research. Also: ELP -3.7% , CPL -3.4% , EBR -2.4% . 1 comment! Monsanto ( MON ) will resume collecting royalties for its Roundup Ready soybeans in Brazil while it appeals a court ruling there on intellectual property rights. Brazilian growers say the original patent expired in 2010, ending their obligation to pay MON a technology fee on the seeds; MON says ... ThyssenKrupp AG ( TYEKY.OB , TYEKF.PK ) +5% in Frankfurt on news Companhia Siderrgica Nacional ( SID ), Brazil's No.3 steelmaker, has reportedly emerged as the leading bidder for its Brazilian and U.S. steel-plant assets. For now, ThyssenKrupp remains in parallel negotiations with Vale ( VALE ) and ... Vale ( VALE -2.6% ) shares tumbled in afternoon trading after Brazil's Supreme Court declared only a partial end to double taxation of foreign units of Brazilian companies. The ruling seems to leave in question a 30.5B real ($15.4B) tax liability Vale disputes as improper double taxation. Post your ... Brazilian Pres. Rousseff vetoes parts of a controversial bill intended to share royalties from Brazil's oilfields across the country's 26 states. The veto ensures producer states continue to receive royalties on output from existing oil concessions, but non-producing states will get a greater share ... SERTAOZINHO, Brazil, Aug 29 (Reuters) - Exports of Brazilian ethanol to the U.S. market are likely to grow, while still allowing Brazil to increase its blend of the biofuel in gasoline in early 2013, local sugar and ethanol analyst Datagro said. SAO PAULO, April 15 (Reuters) - BM&FBovespa SA, Brazil's sole financial exchange operator, named former Brazilian senior government official Pedro Parente as chairman on Monday, replacing Arminio Fraga Neto. KUALA LUMPUR, May 8 (Reuters) - Malaysian state oil firm Petroliam Nasional Bhd agreed on Wednesday to pay $850 million for a 40 percent stake in a Brazilian offshore oil field controlled by Brazil's OGX Petroleo e Gas SA. RIO DE JANEIRO, May 14 (Reuters) - Brazil's state-run oil company Petrobras, Portugal's Galp and Brazil's OGX won Brazilian onshore oil and gas exploration blocks in a frontier region of Brazil's...