Brazil's state-run oil company announced Monday it will invest 224 billion US dollars through 2014 and double production by 2020. About 95% of that will be invested in Brazil.
Brazilian President Lula da Silva, mining giant Vale Doce CEO Roger Agnelli and ThyssenKrupp CEO Ekkehard Schulz inaugurated on Friday Brazil's newest steel mill, Cia Siderurgica do Atlantico (CSA).
The emerging economies of Brazil, India, China and Russia (BRIC) will enjoy an agricultural boom over the next decade as production stalls in Western Europe, a report says.
Brazil and Peru signed several accords which strengthened regional integration with particular emphasis on energy. The event followed a meeting between Presidents Lula da Silva and Alan Garcia met in Manaus, state of Amazon.
Brazilian retail sales declined 3% month-on-month in April, with only two of the ten surveyed sales components recording gains, the statistical agency IBGE said Wednesday. Economists were expecting sales to drop at a much slower rate of 1.6%.
The Brazilian government denied that the Falkland Islands “have been looking for business options in Brazil” specifically linked to hydrocarbons exploration, according to the head of the South American Desk at the Brazilian Foreign Affairs ministry.
Brazil can’t continue to support dictators and regimes that ignore human rights, said opposition presidential hopeful during the Brazilian Social Democracy Party, PSDB, national convention that confirmed him as his grouping’s candidate for October 3.
President Lula da Silva’s former cabinet chief Dilma Rousseff was officially proclaimed Sunday as the ruling Workers’ Party presidential candidate for the coming October elections.
President Lula da Silva said that this coming October election will be the first since 1985 that his name won’ figure, “but to fill that void I will change my name and I will call myself Dilma Rousseff”.
Brazil’s central bank raised its benchmark Selic interest rate for a second straight meeting to contain inflation following strong signs the economy is overheating.