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Valor Econômico

Brazilian economic newspaper

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionOct 12, 2025
Entity authorityQ958931 ↗
Source-derived summary

Valor Econômico is the largest financial newspaper in Brazil, according to the Circulation Verification Institute (IVC).

It is the result of a partnership between two of the country's largest media groups: Grupo Globo (via Editora Globo) and Grupo Folha and had its first edition launched on 2 May 2000.

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Valor Econômico” is brazilian economic newspaper. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Valor, Econômico and Brazilian, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2000—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 2000-05-02. For this dossier, Valor, Econômico and Brazilian is the immediate research focus.
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Named sources, stable identifiers and responsible institutions provide the strongest route from overview to verifiable evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated Oct 12, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q958931. 2 of 2 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2000.

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This entry incorporates text from “Valor Econômico” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.