Brazil

• Friday, October 1st 2010 - 02:16 UTC

  Brazil’s September inflation up 1.15% pushed by food and raw materials prices

  

  Brazil’s broadest measure of inflation rose the fastest since May in September. Construction, consumer and wholesale prices, as measured by the IGP-M index, rose 1.15% this month.

• Wednesday, September 29th 2010 - 01:48 UTC

  Rousseff forecasted to increase integration with Mercosur and BRIC

  

  Brazilian and Argentine international relations experts anticipate that if as all opinion polls indicate Dilma Rousseff will be elected next Sunday as the first woman president in the history of Brazil, the country’s foreign policy will continue the model implemented by President Lula da Silva.

• Tuesday, September 28th 2010 - 21:38 UTC

  Brazil claims “global currency war” has broken out, but we have an ‘arsenal’

  

  Brazilian Finance Minister Guido Mantega claimed that an “international currency war” has broken out but the government will buy all “excess dollars” in the market to curb the appreciation of the local currency Real.

• Tuesday, September 28th 2010 - 01:52 UTC

  Brazil main daily blasts Lula da Silva; supports opposition presidential candidate

  

  One of Brazil’s leading and influential newspapers, O Estado de Sao Paulo announced its support for opposition presidential candidate Jose Serra for the coming Sunday election and described current president Lula da Silva as a “bad example” for Brazilian politics.

• Saturday, September 25th 2010 - 03:01 UTC

  Brazil’s oil prospects break all records of share placing: 70 billion US dollars

  

  Brazil's government managed oil and gas company raised 70 billion US in the world's biggest-ever share offering Thursday. The success of Petrobras issue showed the extent of investor interest in Brazil's massive offshore oil reserves, one of the world's fastest-growing regions for energy production.

• Thursday, September 23rd 2010 - 00:44 UTC

  Lula’s attacks on the press “dangerous” and has him “on track with Chavez”

  

  President Lula da Silva’s comments on freedom of the press are “something dangerous” and put him on the tracks of “Venezuelan leader Hugo Chavez” said the president of the Inter-American Press Association (SIP), Alejandro Aguirre in an interview published in Brazilian newspaper O'Globo.

• Wednesday, September 22nd 2010 - 16:16 UTC

  Russia bars beef imports from four Brazilian and one Argentine plants

  

  Brazil’s JBS S.A., one of the world’s leading exporters of beef said late Wednesday that Russian authorities told the company that several of its meat plants have been barred from exporting product to Russia.

• Wednesday, September 22nd 2010 - 07:46 UTC

  Lula da Silva again furious with the press for exposing government corruption

  

  Brazilian president Lula da Silva again attached the media on Tuesday claiming that freedom of expression does not imply “inventing stories and news”. He added that the media instead of helping public opinion preach “hatred” and are only interested in “failures of his government”.

• Wednesday, September 22nd 2010 - 07:39 UTC

  Brazil’s central bank buys 5.9 billion USD to contain revaluation of the Real

  

  Brazilian central bank President Henrique Meirelles stepped up dollar purchases to the highest in almost a year this month in a bid to temper gains in the Real.

• Monday, September 20th 2010 - 23:07 UTC

  Lula da Silva and presidential candidate Rousseff attack the press

  

  Brazil’s ruling party presidential candidate Dilma Rousseff accused the newspaper Folha de Sao Paulo of “defamation” for publishing an article linking her to alleged irregularities during her time as an official and, in this way, joined the criticisms against certain media formulated by President Lula da Silva.