Tag: Dilma Rousseff

• Tuesday, December 2nd 2014 - 06:01 UTC

  Rousseff names another market-friendly minister to her new cabinet

  

  Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff has named business leader Armando Monteiro to head the industry and trade ministry in a new sign of more market-friendly policies as she tries to restore investor confidence and reignite economic growth.

• Friday, November 28th 2014 - 06:46 UTC

  New Brazilian minister pledges realistic fiscal targets and balanced economic growth

  

  Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff finally announced on Thursday the appointment of Joaquim Levy, as her next Finance minister who is also known as the 'scissors man', who pledged more realistic fiscal targets and promised more balanced economic growth.

• Saturday, November 22nd 2014 - 09:19 UTC

  Brazil committed to advance with EU/Mercosur trade negotiations

  

  Brazil must speed international trade agreement negotiations, said cabinet chief Aloizo Mercadante, in direct reference to Mercosur and demanding an end to internal disputes.

• Saturday, November 22nd 2014 - 06:07 UTC

  Rousseff expected to announce proven fiscal hawk as Finance minister

  

  Brazilian president Dilma Rousseff already has the names for crucial posts in her new government, but they will not be announced until next Wednesday according to reports in Sao Paulo and Rio do Janeiro newspapers based on Planalto sources. But the names were sufficient to make the Sao Paulo stock exchange surge 5% on Friday.

• Wednesday, November 19th 2014 - 06:57 UTC

  Petrobras corruption: plea bargains with the return of 165m dollars with five accused

  

  Five people accused in a corruption scandal at Brazil's state oil giant Petrobras have agreed to return 165 million dollars to the public purse in plea bargains with prosecutors, a newspaper reported Tuesday.

• Tuesday, November 18th 2014 - 11:19 UTC

  Bolivia confident Mercosur incorporation process will be ironed out at the next summit

  

  Bolivia trusts that at the coming Mercosur summit in Argentina it can advance in solving the “technical-legal” difficulties that are delaying the country's full membership of the trade and political group. Allegedly one of the main differences rests in neighboring Paraguay and how it would accept Bolivia's incorporation.

• Tuesday, November 18th 2014 - 08:22 UTC

  Rousseff pledges that Petrobras corruption case “will change the country forever”

  

  Brazil's President Dilma Rousseff said investigations into corruption at the state-owned oil company, Petrobras, could change the country forever. This was the first time she spoke since the arrest on Friday of 23 people suspected of corruption and money-laundering.

• Tuesday, November 18th 2014 - 06:12 UTC

  China and Brazil confirm closer trade and investment ties

  

  Chinese President Xi Jinping met his Brazilian counterpart Dilma Rousseff in Australia on the sidelines of the G20 summit, calling for substantial progress in China-Brazil railway cooperation and further expanding trade and investment.

• Tuesday, November 18th 2014 - 06:02 UTC

  Rousseff wants to improve ties with Washington, but hurdles and attitudes persist

  

  Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff, who cancelled a White House trip last year in anger over U.S. spying revelations, now wants to improve ties and reschedule the state visit - but some U.S. officials warn it might not be that easy.

• Saturday, November 15th 2014 - 07:52 UTC

  Something stinks in Petrobras: former director and leading contractors CEOs arrested on bribery charges

  

  Brazilian police arrested a former Petrobras executive on Friday, sending the state-run oil company's shares and bonds down after a widening corruption scandal forced it to delay the release of its financial results.