Brazil local-currency credit rating is being reviewed for an upgrade by Standard & Poor’s, which cited the country’s economic stability. The rating was affirmed at BBB+, the third-lowest investment grade, S&P said in a statement.
The Brazilian government has unofficially cut its outlook for 2011 GDP growth given a slowing world economy and unsustainably fast expansion last year, a local newspaper reported on Friday.
Brazilian authorities announced this week the capture of one of the brains of what is considered the country’s biggest ever bank robbery.
Brazilian scientists say they have found signs of a huge underground river flowing far beneath the Amazon River, reports O Estado de Sao Paulo.
Brazilian meat giant JBS S.A. has announced that BNDES (Brazilian Development Bank) converted a large amount of JBS debt into equity, boosting the bank’s shareholdings in the company to 30.4% from 17% previously.
A Brazilian minister accused his own party of trying to destroy him and said he might not have enough support to continue in his job, raising the odds of yet another high-level departure from President Dilma Rousseff's beleaguered government.
Brazilian president Dilma Rousseff said on Tuesday that the two main parties of the ruling coalition, “PT (Workers party) and the PMDB (Brazilian Democratic Movement) are the basis of the stability and trust of the government”.
Brazilian Finance minister Guido Mantega admitted before the Senate that the global financial crisis is already having an impact in the local economy and this will be reflected in a lower GDP for the twelve months.
Another Brazilian minister, and particularly close to President Dilma Rousseff has been targeted by the Sunday edition of a Sao Paulo magazine with national circulation. According to the report Communications minister Paulo Bernardo has been using the private jet of a major public contractor of the Brazilian government.
Guess who is the main producer of soy beans in Brazil, the country that is the world’s second exporter of oilseed behind the United States?, a Brazilian, no an Argentine group.