Article: Brazil : Bovespa Futures Gain on Commodity Advance, Petrobras Oil Find.

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Brazilian stock futures advanced, indicating the gauge may climb for a third week, after commodity prices rose and Petroleo Brasileiro SA said it discovered more oil.

Petrobras, as Brazil s state-controlled oil company is known, jumped 2 percent in U.S. trading after saying preliminary analysis indicates the presence of 280 million barrels of recoverable light oil in its offshore Campos Basin. OGX Petroleo e Gas Participacoes SA, the oil company controlled by billionaire Eike Batista, may advance as Itau Unibanco Holding SA said its oil concessions are pretty near to Petrobras oil discovery. Vale SA rose more than 1 percent after the ...

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