Tag: Brazil

• Tuesday, March 3rd 2020 - 08:36 UTC

  Brazil confirms second case of coronavirus: patient who arrived from Italy

  

  Brazil’s Health Ministry over the weekend confirmed the country’s second case of the fast-spreading new coronavirus, diagnosed in a 32-year-old patient in São Paulo who had recently visited Italy and arrived on Thursday.

• Tuesday, March 3rd 2020 - 08:29 UTC

  Brazil increases bio-content of blended diesel to 12% from 11%

  

  Brazil increased the volume of biodiesel blended with diesel sold at the pump to 12% from 11% on Sunday, the latest increase to a biofuels mandate that aims to decrease Latin America's largest economy's dependence on imported barrels.

• Tuesday, March 3rd 2020 - 08:21 UTC

  Brazil's soybeans sales to China and soy-meal exports to the EU remain very strong

  

  Brazil, the world’s largest soy producer, and supplier, shipped 3.55 million tons of soybeans in the first three weeks of February, up 367% month on month, according to a report from the Brazilian foreign trade department.

• Saturday, February 29th 2020 - 07:50 UTC

  Controversy in Brazil over quick regulatory approval for agrochemicals

  

  Brazil’s Agriculture Ministry will allow for agrochemicals awaiting regulatory approval to receive licenses automatically, potentially allowing new pesticides to reach the market faster, according to new rules published on Thursday.

• Saturday, February 29th 2020 - 07:44 UTC

  Merrill Lynch and JP Morgan cut Brazil's 2020 economic growth to below 2%

  

  Bank of America Merrill Lynch cut its 2020 Brazilian economic growth outlook to under 2.0%, while JP Morgan reduced its outlook for Latin America’s largest economy even further below the threshold that many observers say is highly sensitive for President Jair Bolsonaro’s administration.

• Friday, February 28th 2020 - 07:45 UTC

  Amnesty International: Major human rights events in the Americas 2019

  

  Amnesty International has documented grave violations of human rights in 2019 in 24 countries across the Americas. Examples of the major human rights events analyzed include:

• Thursday, February 27th 2020 - 08:49 UTC

  Brazilian markets reopen to a shock and the Real weakens to a new low

  

  Brazil's Real touched a record low on Wednesday as traders returned from the Carnival holiday only to be alarmed by concerns about the spread of the new coronavirus after Sao Paulo confirmed its first case. The Real weakened 1.1% to 4.4470 against the dollar, as it led declines among other Latin American currencies.

• Wednesday, February 26th 2020 - 09:40 UTC

  First case of Covid-19 confirmed in Sao Paulo, Brazil

  

  Brazil's Ministry of Health, in conjunction with the state and municipal departments of São Paulo, has confirmed a case of Coronavirus disease in the municipality of São Paulo. The business man had travelled this month to the north of Italy.

• Monday, February 24th 2020 - 06:38 UTC

  Petrobras workers end three weeks strike, after arbitration call by labor court

  

  Workers at Brazil’s state-owned oil giant Petrobras have ended a strike of nearly three weeks that left the firm scrambling to avoid a drop in production, labor unions said last Friday. Around 21,000 workers — a third of the total workforce — joined the mass walk-out at the start of the month.

• Monday, February 24th 2020 - 06:33 UTC

  Petrobras record profit for 2019, basically on divesting and asset sales

  

  Brazil’s state-run oil firm Petrobras reported last week a record net profit for 2019, thanks to asset sales under its strategy to divest non-core operations and focus on the deepwater pre-salt region offshore Brazil.