Tag: Claudio Puty

• Thursday, January 28th 2016 - 06:49 UTC

  Brazil expected to announce massive injection of loans to revive the economy

  

  Brazil’s Finance Minister Nelson Barbosa is expected to announce as much as 60bn Reais (US$15bn) in loans as the government seeks to revive growth amid the worst economic downturn in over a century.

• Friday, April 1st 2011 - 00:25 UTC

  Brazil’s central bank just manages to slow the Real currency advance

  

  Brazil’s Real retreated from the highest level since August 2008 after the central bank intervened five times Thursday to slow the currency’s advance. The Real fell 0.2% to 1.6318 per dollar, from 1.6288 Wednesday.