Injured F1 driver Massa back in BrazilTue Aug 4, 5:18 am ET

SAO PAULO (AFP) – Formula One driver Felipe Massa arrived in his native Brazil late Monday, flying in from Hungary where he had surgery for serious head injuries sustained in a June 25 racing accident.
The 28-year-old landed at Sao Paulo airport on a private jet accompanied by wife Rafaela and his doctor, Dino Altman, airport officials told AFP.
The plane landed in a military zone of the facility, away from media lenses, and Massa was transferred to a waiting helicopter that was to fly him to Sao Paulo's Albert Einstein Hospital.

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Brazil IPO activity heats up with bank, food offerings
Resurgence would aid lackluster global IPO market
By Carla Mozee, MarketWatch
LOS ANGELES (MarketWatch) -- Investors eager for new ways to buy emerging markets assets are beginning to turn to Brazil, where a successful launch of a credit-card firm and planned offerings from a bank and a food industry heavyweight hold promise for revitalizing a sluggish global IPO market.
Late last week, Spanish banking heavyweight Banco Santander SA /quotes/comstock/13*!std/quotes/nls/std (STD 14.61, -0.02, -0.14%) informed Brazilian regulators of its plan for an initial public offering on the stock exchange in São Paulo. Brazilian beef and pork producer JBS SA is planning to launch shares in its U.S. unit on the New York Stock Exchange.
An official for the operator of Brazil's stock market says the exchange expects to see more companies list in the second half of this year, though activity is unlikely to reach the intense level of 2007.

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