Tag: Brazil

• Wednesday, November 8th 2017 - 09:59 UTC

  An estimated third of the Brazilian population live below the poverty line

  

  A new system implemented by the World Bank to measure the number of people who live below the poverty line has meant that in Brazil the number has risen from 8.9 million to 45.5 million, which is almost a third of the population.

• Monday, November 6th 2017 - 08:37 UTC

  Brazilian industrial activity reports its best September since 2013

  

  After two years of the most severe recession facing Brazil, economic indicators continue to mark a more positive horizon for the Brazilian economy. Data released by the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics (IBGE) show that the Brazilian industry is heading for a recovery scenario.

• Saturday, November 4th 2017 - 10:40 UTC

  Brazil becoming main supplier of soybean to China at peak US marketing season

  

  Brazil is expected to win a larger share of China’s soybean imports in coming months, hitting U.S. exporters during the peak marketing season for their most valuable farm product as the world grapples with a fifth consecutive bumper crop.

• Friday, November 3rd 2017 - 07:08 UTC

  Brazilian electorate divided on Lula: half want him as president and the other half in jail

  

  Half of Brazilians want former President Lula da Silva to win next year's election and return to the office he occupied between 2003 and 2010. The other half wants him in prison for a corruption conviction.

• Wednesday, November 1st 2017 - 09:00 UTC

  Brazil's central bank puts off signals about next year's interest rate policy

  

  Brazil’s central bank has decided to put off any signals about its 2018 interest rate decisions, the bank said on Tuesday, leaving the door open for lower rates next year as the economy recovers with inflation under control.

• Tuesday, October 31st 2017 - 08:30 UTC

  Brazil: the return of deepwater oil

  

  By Nick Cunningham of Oilprice.com - On a historic auction for deepwater oil assets in Brazil, the oil majors showed up on October 27 and bought several offshore blocks, indicating a high level of interest in the country after a major policy overhaul allowed private investment.

• Tuesday, October 31st 2017 - 08:16 UTC

  Meirelles again mentioned as candidate for a presidential ticket next year

  

  Brazil's Finance Minister Henrique Meirelles insisted on Monday that he is not planning to run for president and told a business meeting he could consider being a vice presidential running mate.

• Monday, October 30th 2017 - 17:53 UTC

  Temer expected to return to work on Tuesday, following prostate surgery

  

  Brazilian President Michel Temer should be discharged today Monday from the Sao Paulo hospital where he had surgery to reduce the size of his prostate, his office said on Saturday. A previously announced meeting on Monday with Bolivian President Evo Morales will be postponed, the Foreign Ministry said.

• Monday, October 30th 2017 - 11:02 UTC

  Brazil wants detailed investigation into Canada's aerospace industry “subsidies”

  

  Canada has urged the World Trade Organization to block attempts by Brazil to trigger a detailed investigation of its aerospace industry to buttress its case that subsidies to Bombardier caused “serious prejudice” to Brazil’s Embraer. The procedural move by Canada comes a month after the WTO agreed to set up a panel to investigate Brazil’s claim that Canada provided harmful aid to the CSeries jet.

• Monday, October 30th 2017 - 07:17 UTC

  Lula and former military officer, main presidential candidates in 2018, shows Ibope poll

  

  Brazilian Former Lula da Silva and right-wing congressman Jair Bolsonaro would make it to a second round of voting in the 2018 presidential elections if they were held on Sunday, an Ibope poll showed.