Brazil

• Tuesday, November 8th 2011 - 08:32 UTC

  Argentina names trade expert as next ambassador in Brazil

  

  Luis Maria Kreckler currently Argentina’s Foreign Ministry’s Trade and Economic Affairs secretary and who was also considered a strong candidate to be the Foreign Minister in the next presidential cabinet, was appointed as Argentina’s Ambassador to Brazil.

• Tuesday, November 8th 2011 - 07:58 UTC

  Rousseff warns about global unemployment; calls for plans to generate jobs

  

  Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff addressing the results of the G20 summit in Cannes, where Brazil was one of the countries represented said that job creation is a way to tackle economic crises.

• Monday, November 7th 2011 - 05:58 UTC

  Rousseff could see another minister out: Labour accused of corruption

  

  Advisers to Brazil’s Labor Minister Carlos Lupi demanded kickbacks from non-government organizations with government contracts, newsmagazine Veja reported Sunday, citing unnamed lawmakers and officials.

• Friday, November 4th 2011 - 08:14 UTC

  October car sales in Brazil drop 10% surprising dealers and the auto industry

  

  Car sales in Brazil dropped 10% in October compared to the previous month according to the country’s dealers association, Fenabrave turning warning lights on for the global auto industry. This follows September’s decline that affected all of Brazilian industrial production.

• Friday, November 4th 2011 - 08:11 UTC

  Brazil must balance trade relation and avoid ‘anti-China feeling’

  

  Brazil must balance its trade relation with China, (leading commercial partner) and not allow an anti-Chinese feeling among manufacturers to spoil relations with Beijing said economists in Sao Paulo.

• Thursday, November 3rd 2011 - 08:17 UTC

  BRICS ‘leaders scheduled to decide on common stance before the G20 summit'

  

  Brazilian president Dilma Rousseff said that solutions to European and global economic difficulties need to promote economic growth and employment. Ms Rousseff arrived Wednesday in France for the summit of G-20 leaders this week, but before will be meeting with peers from the BRICS group to work out a common stance.

• Thursday, November 3rd 2011 - 01:44 UTC

  Lula undergoes cancer treatment; calls Brazilians to support President Rousseff

  

  Former Brazilian President Lula da Silva, one of the most popular figures in Brazil vowed in a video posted on YouTube to beat his recently diagnosed throat cancer.

• Wednesday, November 2nd 2011 - 20:54 UTC

  Brazil receives 8bn dollars loan to lift another 16 million people from ‘misery’

  

  Brazil will receive 8 billion dollars in financing from the World Bank to push its campaign to uproot extreme hardship deeper into some of the country's poorest areas, the bank said on Wednesday.

• Wednesday, November 2nd 2011 - 04:44 UTC

  Brazil heading for another record trade surplus close to 30 billion dollars

  

  Brazil posted a trade surplus of 2.355 billion dollars in October, beating forecasts for a third straight month, outpacing imports in the final days of the month following a recovery in global commodities prices.

• Wednesday, November 2nd 2011 - 04:40 UTC

  Brazilian industrial production contracts the most in five months

  

  Brazilian industrial production fell more than expected in September, posting its steepest decline in five months and bolstering the central bank’s argument for more interest-rate cuts in Latin America’s largest economy.