Tag: Brazil

• Wednesday, September 25th 2013 - 07:46 UTC

  UK at Amazon biodiversity, sustainability and innovation seminar in Brazil

  

  The year 2013 is a special one for researches in the northern region of Brazil: the Ferreira Penna Scientific Station, research base of the Emílio Goeldi museum and research unit of the Brazilian Ministry of Science and Technology, completes 20 years of existence.

• Wednesday, September 25th 2013 - 05:40 UTC

  Rousseff implicitly accuses the US of breach of international law and calls for UN regulation of internet

  

  Addressing the United Nations General Assembly Brazilian President Dilma Roussef claimed that spying in the lives and affairs of other countries is a breach of international law and urged the United Nations to play a leading role in protecting Internet users from illegal interception of communications and data, and decried recent allegations of electronic information spying as “serious violations of human rights”.

• Tuesday, September 24th 2013 - 08:07 UTC

  Brazil will continue with the 60bn dollar currency intervention program: ‘it’s working adequately’

  

  Brazil’s central bank chief Alexandre Tombini said on Monday policy makers will continue with their 60 billion dollars currency intervention plan, even after the Real rallied more than any other currency in the world as a consequence of the surprise announcement from the US Fed that for the moment it will not taper the bonds’ buying program to stimulate the US economy

• Monday, September 23rd 2013 - 20:56 UTC

  Brazil’ Bovespa implementing changes to update its benchmark Ibovespa

  

  Brazil’s main stock exchange Bovespa is implementing changes to its benchmark Ibovespa stock index, the first since 1968, in an effort to correct recent distortions and better reflect the performance of local shares.

• Monday, September 23rd 2013 - 18:56 UTC

  Brazil insists that Libra oil field auction was a major success

  

  Brazil’s government is planning to give a boost to state-run oil company Petróleo Brasileiro by financing its participation in the October 21 auction of Libra, the country’s largest-ever oil discovery, the O Estado de Sao Paulo newspaper reported over the weekend.

• Monday, September 23rd 2013 - 16:29 UTC

  Brazilian media warns that upgrading or airports is way behind schedule

  

  Delays are plaguing work at airports in seven of the 12 Brazilian cities that will host the World Cup nine months from now, the daily O Globo reported Sunday. Citing a survey by Infraero, the federal airports agency, the paper said the worst delay was in the southern city of Porto Alegre, where work on expanding terminal at a cost of 69 million dollars has not even begun.

• Friday, September 20th 2013 - 08:31 UTC

  Argentina and Brazil address Mercosur and trade discussion with Europe

  

  Argentina’s Hector Timerman and Brazil’s new Foreign minister Luiz Alberto Figueiredo Machado discussed a long agenda of common interest issues during a work meeting held in Buenos Aires, which included Mercosur, trade discussions with Europe, Unasur, Haiti and US cyber-spying in the region among other issues.

• Friday, September 20th 2013 - 08:02 UTC

  Brazil prepared to lower Mercosur tariffs at January’s review panel

  

  Brazil's government is considering lowering import duties in the next planned review of regional bloc Mercosur tariffs, which is scheduled to take place in January, Trade Minister Fernando Pimentel announced this week.

• Friday, September 20th 2013 - 07:36 UTC

  Brazil’s Mantega becomes supporter of US stimulus and praises Fed’ last decision

  

  Brazilian Finance Minister Guido Mantega, on Wednesday cheered the Federal Reserve's decision to leave stimulus unchanged, saying it may signal an end to market turmoil. Mantega, who gained international fame for using the term “currency wars” to describe rich nations’ efforts to lift exports by weakening their currencies, said a gradual stimulus withdrawal may boost Latin America's largest economy.

• Friday, September 20th 2013 - 07:30 UTC

  Brazil with no labs to handle drug testing for the 2014 World Cup

  

  With one lab suspended and its replacement unfinished, Brazil won't be able to handle drug testing for the 2014 World Cup alone and is looking overseas for help. The executive director of the country's anti-doping authority said the new lab in Rio de Janeiro should be running a year before the 2016 Olympics. But, Marco Aurelio Klein added, the lab won't be ready for the World Cup next June and July.