Tag: Flavio Castelo Branco

• Saturday, September 6th 2014 - 06:27 UTC

  Brazil's industrial activity shows the economy if far from a strong recovery

  

  Industrial-activity data released this week added to worries that Brazil's economy, already in recession, is far from a strong recovery. The trade group National Confederation of Industry, CNI, said revenue for the Brazilian manufacturing sector fell 5.1% in July from a year earlier and rose 1.2% from June.

• Friday, July 6th 2012 - 01:48 UTC

  Brazil’s use of installed industrial capacity falls for a fourth consecutive month

  

  Brazil's use of installed industrial capacity fell for a fourth consecutive month in May, alongside a decline in industrial sales during the period, Brazil's National Confederation of Industries, or CNI, said Thursday.

• Thursday, May 10th 2012 - 19:57 UTC

  Industrial sales and employment in Brazil gradually picking up

  

  Brazil's use of installed industrial capacity fell for a second consecutive month in March, despite a continued recovery of industrial sales during the period, Brazil's National Confederation of Industries, CNI, announced.

• Friday, March 23rd 2012 - 02:25 UTC

  One in five manufactured goods consumed in Brazil were imports

  

  Almost one in five manufactured goods consumed in Brazil during 2011 was imported, according to the ‘commercial opening coefficient’ survey undertaken by the country’s National Industry Confederation, CNI, and released this week in Sao Paulo.

• Thursday, February 3rd 2011 - 21:54 UTC

  Brazilian industry loosing world market share to main trading partner, China

  

  Competition with top trading partner China is costing Brazilian industry valuable market share, the National Confederation of Industry (CNI) in South America's largest economy said on Thursday.