Tag: Brazil economy

• Thursday, April 7th 2011 - 10:15 UTC

  Brazil’s latest effort to stem flood of capital and contain the ‘Mighty Real’

  

  Brazil unveiled Wednesday the latest effort to stem a flood of foreign capital that is driving the local currency sky-high and undermining the competitiveness of the country’s exports. Finance Minister Guido Mantega blamed the currency woes on the Federal Reserve policy that keeps US interest rates near zero.

• Friday, February 4th 2011 - 22:28 UTC

  Brazil preparing package to counter surging imports rapidly eroding trade surplus

  

  Brazil’s trade surplus fell more than economists expected in January from a month earlier as exports declined at a faster pace than imports. The surplus narrowed to 424 million USD last month from 5.37 billion in December, said the Trade Ministry.

• Monday, November 15th 2010 - 19:29 UTC

  Dilma prepared to apply drastic measures to contain Brazil’s currency surge

  

  Brazilian president-elect Dilma Rousseff admitted her administration would take all the necessary measures possible to prevent the Brazilian Real from increasing its value vis-à-vis the US dollar, according to reports from the Sao Paulo press that interviewed the successor of President Lula da Silva in the recent G-20 summit in Korea.

• Wednesday, October 20th 2010 - 03:02 UTC

  Fiat plans to invest 6 billion USD by 2015 in Brazil to boost production

  

  Italy's Fiat will invest 10 billion Reais (USD 6 billion) in Brazil by 2015 in operations that include production of cars, auto parts and agricultural machinery.

• Tuesday, October 5th 2010 - 23:20 UTC

  Brazil doubles tax on foreign investors buying local bonds and fixed return assets

  

  Brazil doubled this week the tax on foreign investors buying local bonds or making deposits in fixed returns in an attempt to curb a currency rally that has turned into an issue in the country's presidential race.