Tag: Brazil

• Friday, November 4th 2011 - 08:11 UTC

  Brazil must balance trade relation and avoid ‘anti-China feeling’

  

  Brazil must balance its trade relation with China, (leading commercial partner) and not allow an anti-Chinese feeling among manufacturers to spoil relations with Beijing said economists in Sao Paulo.

• Wednesday, November 2nd 2011 - 20:54 UTC

  Brazil receives 8bn dollars loan to lift another 16 million people from ‘misery’

  

  Brazil will receive 8 billion dollars in financing from the World Bank to push its campaign to uproot extreme hardship deeper into some of the country's poorest areas, the bank said on Wednesday.

• Wednesday, November 2nd 2011 - 04:44 UTC

  Brazil heading for another record trade surplus close to 30 billion dollars

  

  Brazil posted a trade surplus of 2.355 billion dollars in October, beating forecasts for a third straight month, outpacing imports in the final days of the month following a recovery in global commodities prices.

• Wednesday, November 2nd 2011 - 04:40 UTC

  Brazilian industrial production contracts the most in five months

  

  Brazilian industrial production fell more than expected in September, posting its steepest decline in five months and bolstering the central bank’s argument for more interest-rate cuts in Latin America’s largest economy.

• Tuesday, November 1st 2011 - 21:52 UTC

  Amnesty helps anti-mafia lawmaker leave Brazil following death threats

  

  A high-profile state congressman in Rio de Janeiro who investigated criminal militia groups is leaving Brazil after he said police found at least seven death threats against him this month.

• Tuesday, November 1st 2011 - 05:45 UTC

  Development bank activity shows Brazilian economy slowing down

  

  Loan disbursements at Brazil's state development bank BNDES will miss their initial target for the year, reflecting a rapid economic slowdown in Latin America's largest economy, the lender's top executive said on Monday.

• Tuesday, November 1st 2011 - 05:36 UTC

  Brazil’s net debt falls in September to 37.2% of GDP, lowest since 1997

  

  Brazil’s net debt fell in September to its lowest level since 1997, as a 15% decline in the real last month boosted the value of the country’s near-record 353 billion dollars in foreign currency reserves.

• Monday, October 31st 2011 - 19:33 UTC

  Brazil is again a country of immigrants: two million expats returned in five years

  

  Millions of foreigners have moved into Brazil attracted by the economic expansion of recent years, while the number of Brazilians leaving the country has dropped dramatically, according to official data released last week.

• Monday, October 31st 2011 - 19:10 UTC

  Brazil awaking to the possible prospect of political life without Lula da Silva

  

  Brazil's popular former President Lula da Silva started chemotherapy treatment for throat cancer Monday with his doctors voicing confidence in his chances of being cured within four months.

• Monday, October 31st 2011 - 03:11 UTC

  Brazil becomes sixth world economy, overtaking UK by the end of 2011

  

  At the end of the current year Brazil’s GDP will rank sixth in the world and for the first time ahead of Britain’s GDP, according to the Sao Paulo media based on reports from IMF and private consultants.