Tag: Brazil

• Saturday, July 14th 2012 - 00:26 UTC

  Brazil’s 2012/13 soybean crop in place to dispute the US supremacy

  

  Next season, 2012/13 Brazilian soybean growers could be in place to jump from the world's No. 2 producer and dispute the US first place. Brazil's 2012-13 soybean production is expected to rise 25% from this season’s drought-punished, to 83.1 million tons.

• Friday, July 13th 2012 - 23:46 UTC

  Rousseff pledges to prop the economy but with no EU-style austerity measures

  

  Brazil will not adopt EU-style austerity measures to tackle its economic crisis and will instead cut taxes and maintain social programs, President Dilma Rousseff said on Friday.

• Thursday, July 12th 2012 - 07:27 UTC

  Brazil lowers benchmark rate for eighth straight time to 8%

  

  Brazil’s central bank cut its benchmark interest rate for the eighth straight time and signaled it will continue to lower borrowing costs, as spillover from a global economic slowdown limits inflation risks.

• Wednesday, July 11th 2012 - 19:24 UTC

  With Venezuela, Mercosur will extend from Patagonia to the Caribbean

  

  Brazilian Foreign minister Antonio Patriota again supported the access of Venezuela as full member of Mercosur and the suspension of Paraguay, which he described as a clear message for all those possible “anti-democratic adventures”.

• Tuesday, July 10th 2012 - 21:22 UTC

  Brazil plans to combat endemic dengue fever with GM mosquitoes

  

  Brazil said it will breed huge numbers of genetically modified mosquitoes to help stop the spread of dengue fever, an illness that has already struck nearly 500,000 people this year nationwide, killing 74.

• Tuesday, July 10th 2012 - 05:15 UTC

  Pork for apples opens the way to normalize frozen Argentine/Brazilian trade

  

  After two months of waiting, Brazil authorized the entry of apples from Argentina’s Alto Valle of Rio Negro and Neuquen. The news, which brings relief to local exporters, came after Argentina reopened its market to pork from Brazil.

• Monday, July 9th 2012 - 18:32 UTC

  Canadian cowboy plans to ride 16.000 kilometres and reach Brazil in 2014

  

  A Canadian cowboy hopes to join the ranks of the long riders as he rode out of Calgary, Alberta on Sunday for an epic journey to his birthplace in Brazil. Filipe Masetti Leite intends to spend the next two years riding his two horses, “Bruiser” and “Frenchie,” through 12 countries in North, Central and South America.

• Monday, July 9th 2012 - 06:05 UTC

  Influential Brazilian banker says further weakening of the Real “would be better”

  

  Luciano Coutinho president of Brazil’s state development bank BNDES, said the country has benefited from the recent weakening of its currency and a further drop would be better, according to newspaper Folha de Sao Paulo.

• Monday, July 9th 2012 - 05:59 UTC

  Chavez announces trip to Brazil for Venezuela’s formal admission to Mercosur

  

  President Hugo Chavez said he will be attending at the end of July the coming Mercosur meeting in Brasil when Venezuela will officially become the group’s fifth full member, a decision that has proved controversial and exposed differences inside the Common Market of the South.

• Monday, July 9th 2012 - 05:51 UTC

  Brazilian Air Force delays for another six months bidding for huge contract

  

  Brazilian Air Force has asked bidders to renew their offers on a contract to provide 36 next-generation fighter jets, extending for six months a race between US, French and Swedish contestants.