Tag: Brazil

• Saturday, July 23rd 2011 - 02:05 UTC

  Brazil: race and skin colour condition jobs, relations with police and magistrates

  

  Most Brazilians feel that race and skin colour have great influence in labour relations and in the way they are treated by police and the judiciary, according to a report from the Brazilian Geography and Statistics Institute, IBGE.

• Friday, July 22nd 2011 - 06:20 UTC

  Brazil: record low unemployment and more job-creation in second half anticipated

  

  Brazil’s unemployment rate fell to its lowest since January in spite of efforts by policy makers to cool growth and inflation in Latin America’s biggest economy. The jobless rate fell to 6.2% in June, from 6.4% in May and 7% a year earlier, the national statistics agency said in a report distributed in Rio de Janeiro.

• Friday, July 22nd 2011 - 06:09 UTC

  Slower truck sales in Brazil hit Sweden’s Scania second quarter profit

  

  Swedish truck-maker Scania controlled by Germany’s Volkswagen, reported second-quarter profit that missed analysts’ estimates as orders in Brazil slowed. Net income in the quarter rose to 2.43 billion kronor (380 million USD) from 2.37 billion kronor a year earlier, the company said in a statement.

• Thursday, July 21st 2011 - 09:47 UTC

  Brazilian cruise industry expects sharp slowdown because of limited port capacity

  

  After growing 20% annually over the past ten years and reaching a level of 800,000 tourists annually, the pace of cruise expansion in Brazil is expected to encounter a sharp slowdown in the 2011-2012 season.

• Tuesday, July 19th 2011 - 13:16 UTC

  Northeast Brazil invests in wind energy, operational by December 2012

  

  Denmark-based Vestas has secured an order from a consortium created by Brennand Energia and Companhia Hidro Eletrica do Sao Francisco in the north east of Brazil to supply turbines with a total capacity of 90MW for three wind energy projects.

• Tuesday, July 19th 2011 - 06:05 UTC

  Brazil to cut ethanol content in gasoline to ease pressure on sugar market

  

  Brazil will reduce the ethanol content in gasoline in another effort to contain inflation since sugar (and ethanol) prices because of a poor crop have been soaring, according to the Sao Paulo press.

• Tuesday, July 19th 2011 - 01:15 UTC

  Brazil tightens consumer credit backed by wages and pensions

  

  Brazil's central bank on Monday tightened rules on credit card loans backed by wages and pensions which households are increasingly using as a source of long-term borrowing.

• Monday, July 18th 2011 - 11:40 UTC

  Lula da Silva accuses the Brazilian elite of defending ‘social inequality’

  

  Former Brazilian president Lula da Silva claimed elites defend social inequality and anticipated he would be active again in politics ahead of the 2012 municipal elections.

• Monday, July 18th 2011 - 08:50 UTC

  Brazil launched the construction of four Scorpene-class attack submarines

  

  The construction of four diesel powered Scorpene-class attack submarines for the Brazilian Navy was launched on Saturday at a plant near Rio de Janeiro.

• Saturday, July 16th 2011 - 07:25 UTC

  Move closer to Brazil politically and economically, says US Foreign Relations Council

  

  Influential foreign policy experts at the New York based Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) think the United States should move closer to Brazil politically and economically and recommend the creation of a Brazilian affairs office at the National Security Council.