Brazilian financial market analysts and economists reduced their estimates for the country’s 2010 IPCA inflation rate for the third consecutive week, according to the Central Bank of Brazil’s market survey published Monday. The average estimate for the 2010 year-end IPCA rate was reduced to 5.35% from 5.42%. Despite the reduction, it is still above the [...]
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Brazil booms on real estate
Brazilian real estate is booming again. After a relatively bad period, sales have rebounded in Brazil, an American real estate private equity investor said in an interview to Reuters last Tuesday. Launched two weeks ago, a 104-unit residential project directed at middle-income families in Sao Paulo’s Vila Carrao area is the best example of that, [...]
Brazilian consumers in a good mood
Brazilian consumers seem to be in a good mood. The Consumer Confidence Index (ICC, in the Portuguese initials) is 4.1 percent higher compared to the previous month and has achieved its highest value since last September. According to Fundação Getúlio Vargas (FGV), a key-factor for this improvement was Brazil’s current economic situation, which generates positive [...]
‘Brazil is much more prepared than other emerging markets’
Emerging Market Spotlight – Brazil, China and Mexico, a video from Bloomberg’s channel on YouTube, gives tips about investing in emerging markets. In this interview, Claudio Brocado from Batterymarch Financial Management suggests doing business in Brazil which, in his opinion, “is weathering this crisis much better than it has done in the past, due to [...]
When business and football match
Sun, heat, party and football. That’s what foreigners expect from the World Cup of 2004 in Brazil. And foreign real estate agencies have already started a race to sell houses and properties in the cities which will host the world championship. Brazil expects about 500 thousand tourists for the Cup. The volume is bigger than [...]
Help to Brazilian entrepreneurs
BrazilTradeNet is a commercial portal of Brazil’s Ministry of External Relations. It supports Brazilian entrepreneurs to enter in the North American market aiming to stimulate Brazilian exports and to attract foreign investment to Brazil. It is an interesting option for Brazilian investors who whish to know more about foreign importer companies available in Brazil, importation [...]
Look to Brasilia, not Beijing
The rising challenge to China’s great power aspirations.
Curitiba, Brazil…Where the LA Orange Line Was Born
Curitiba, capital city of the Brazilian state of Paraná, with a metro area of 3.5 million is the fourth largest economic region in Brazil. It draws its name from the Tupi indian word meaning “big pines.” It’s also a city of big urban visions, produced by a culture and form of social organization different from [...]
The Wall Street Journal: Sam Zell Looks to Brazil to Change His Luck
Real estate tycoon Sam Zell, trying to restore his stature as an astute investor after
his disastrous buyout of Tribune Co., has surfaced as an unlikely player in a
controversy in Brazil over affordable housing.