Brazil

• Wednesday, January 17th 2007 - 20:00 UTC

  Petrobras begins natural gas off shore production

  

  Brazil's government controlled oil corporation Petrobrás announced this week the start of natural gas production offshore the state of Bahia, which should increase supply in the northeast of the country helping to reduce the strong dependency from Bolivia.

• Thursday, January 11th 2007 - 20:00 UTC

  US calls on Brazil to relaunch stalled Doha round talks

  

  United States on Thursday called on Brazil to exercise influence over its peers in the G-20 group of developing nations and try to achieve a breakthrough in the stalled Doha global trade talks.

• Wednesday, January 10th 2007 - 20:00 UTC

  Petrobras inaugurates “vessel platform” off Rio do Janerio

  Brazil's government managed hydrocarbons corporation Petrobras begun Tuesday oil and gas extraction from the new Cidade do Rio de Janeiro vessel-platform in the Espadarte field, belonging to the Campos Basin.

• Wednesday, January 10th 2007 - 20:00 UTC

  Brazil manufactures record number of automobiles

  Brazil manufactured a record number of automobiles last year, 2.61 million, up 3.1% over 2005, according to a release Wednesday in Sao Paulo from the Association of Automobile manufacturers, Anfavea.

• Tuesday, January 9th 2007 - 20:00 UTC

  Brazil willing to inject “greater cohesion” to Mercosur

  

  Brazil has plans to grant economic and trade aid to Bolivia, Paraguay and Uruguay in an attempt to give South America's main trade grouping Mercosur, “greater cohesion”, according to the financial press of Sao Paulo.

• Saturday, January 6th 2007 - 20:00 UTC

  Brazil's industry expands 3.1% in 11 months

  Brazil's manufacturing production accumulated 3.1% growth in the first eleven months of 2006 compared to the same period in 2005, which happened to be exactly the same as 2005 over 2004, reported the Brazilian Geography and Statistics Institute, IBGE.

• Thursday, January 4th 2007 - 20:00 UTC

  Brazil buys half of Argentina's growing rice exports

  

  Argentina in the first ten months of 2006 exported 376.000 tons of rice valued at 98 million dollars US dollars, half of which to Mercosur partner Brazil, which is also its main trading partner.

• Thursday, January 4th 2007 - 20:00 UTC

  Petrobras joins the 100 billion dollars select club

  Brazil's mostly government owned oil corporation Petrobras celebrated this week its entry to the select group of world companies with a market value over 100 billion US dollars.

• Wednesday, January 3rd 2007 - 20:00 UTC

  “Preliminary” WTO discussions between US and Brazil

  

  Brazil's Foreign Affairs minister Celso Amorim, met Wednesday with United States Trade Representative Susan Schwab in New York as part of efforts to get World Trade Organization talks restarted, but both called the discussion preliminary.

• Tuesday, January 2nd 2007 - 20:00 UTC

  Brazil still the slowest growing emerging economy

  

  The latest release from the Brazilian Central Bank, based on private sector estimates, downgraded to 2.74% the 2006 GDP expansion. For 2007 the estimate among a hundred leading business men and analysts is that the economy will grow 3.5%.