Tag: Brazil industrial production

• Thursday, July 5th 2018 - 08:16 UTC

  Brazil industrial production plummets in May on truckers strike

  

  Industrial output in Brazil plummeted in May at the sharpest pace in a decade, highlighting the deep impact of a nationwide truckers' strike in the final weeks of that month. Production fell 10.9% from April, government statistics agency IBGE said on Wednesday, the largest decline since December 2008.

• Wednesday, July 5th 2017 - 20:52 UTC

  Brazilian industrial output grows for a second month during May

  

  Industrial output in Brazil rose for a second straight month in May, government data showed on Tuesday, underpinning hopes that the economy will not fall back into recession despite an escalating political crisis.

• Thursday, September 3rd 2015 - 08:30 UTC

  Brazilian industrial production plummets in July: 8.9% from a year earlier

  

  Brazil's industrial production plummeted in July and fell well below economists' worst predictions. Industry output sank 1.5% in July from June in seasonally adjusted terms and was down 8.9% from a year earlier, the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics, or IBGE, said Wednesday. The IBGE also revised June's drop to 0.9% from 0.3% from the previous month.

• Thursday, May 7th 2015 - 06:08 UTC

  Brazil's industrial production continues to skid, 4,7% in twelve months

  

  Brazil's industrial production has dropped 4.7% in the last twelve months after slipping in March by 0.8% amid a sharp downturn in the country's economy, official figures showed Wednesday.

• Thursday, April 2nd 2015 - 08:20 UTC

  Brazil’s industrial production drops in February; 11 out of 24 sectors down

  

  Brazil's industrial production dropped in February after a momentary uptick at the beginning of the year, as factories and mines braced for what economists say could be the country's worst year in more than two decades.