Posts Tagged ‘BRIC’

The heads of state of Brazil, Rússia, India and China will meet again on April 16th, in Brasília, the Brazilian capital. They first met in the Russian city of Yekaterinburg last year to discuss the international financial crisis. The agenda for the April summit is still being discussed. The meeting comes as Brazil, Latin America’s [...]

BY ANDRES OPPENHEIMER
AOPPENHEIMER@MIAMIHERALD.COM
Latin America has long prided itself on being the world’s most populated nuclear weapons-free region, but recent statements by top Brazilian and Venezuelan officials are making many of us wonder for how long that will be the case.
Brazil’s Vice President Jose Alencar made big headlines late last month when he stated that Brazil [...]

Brazil wants developing countries to have their say and a bigger vote share in the IMF and in the World Bank. According to an article published this Tuesday (8) by the Brazilian newspaper Folha de S. Paulo, that is the government’s main goal for the next G-20 meeting in Pittsburgh, U.S., on September 24th.  
Brazil’s official statement, [...]

Brazil is one of the first countries to emerge out of the economic crisis. That’s what Businessweek stated in an article published yesterday, which highlighted the stimulus measures implemented by Brasilia to keep our economy warm.
Among these measures is My House, My Life – a government habitation program dedicated to funding houses in small installments [...]

GENEVA – With both eyes on the Brazilian market, multinationals indicated the country as the fourth favorite place to invest in the next two years, according to a research of United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (Unctad). BRIC members (Brazil, Russia, India and China) occupy four of the five first countries investors would like [...]

The great potential of the Brazilian consumer market has become a major target for foreign investment. Between this year’s January and May, foreigners have invested more than US$ 11.2 billion in industry, commerce, agriculture and service in general – the second biggest investment amount of the decade.
In interview to the Brazilian newspaper O Estado de [...]

After receiving a death sentence from Brazil’s Minister of Foreign Affairs, Celso Amorim, G-8 – group of the seven richest countries and Russia – is now being threatened with a proposal of a “smooth and elegant” disassemble by the Brazilian government, in this week’s G-8 summit in L’Aquila, Italy.
The Brazilian president, Luiz Inácio Lula da [...]

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, Thomas [...]

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 [...]

The announcement is the greatest progress of the first summit between Brazil, Russia, India and China that took place today in the Russian city of Yekaterinburg. When the meeting was coming to an end, the Brics agreed to act in a coordinated way on the reform of the international financial system.
It was the Russian president, Dmitri Medvedev, [...]