Brazil

• 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%.

• Monday, January 1st 2007 - 20:00 UTC

  Brazil: Lula da Silva becomes President for second term

  

  Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva was sworn in for a second consecutive presidential term in Brazil, with promises to accelerate economic growth and to keep the poor at the top of his government's agenda.

• Friday, December 29th 2006 - 20:00 UTC

  Petrobras declares 19 new areas as “commercially viable”

  Brazil's government owned oil corporation Petrobras declared as Commercially Viable 19 new areas (16 offshore and 3 onshore) in the Espírito Santo, Campos, and Santos Basins. A few of them have become new oil and/or natural gas fields, while others have been incorporated into existing neighboring fields.

• Thursday, December 28th 2006 - 20:00 UTC

  Shell declares field off shore Santos, commercially viable

  

  Royal Dutch Shell PLC announced Thursday it declared the Brazilian offshore BS-4 field in the Santos basin off the Rio do Janeiro coast, commercially viable.