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Brazil’s Economy Pulls Out Of Recession
THE WALL STREET JOURNAL – Brazil flexed its muscle as an emerging-market power in the second quarter as Latin America’s largest economy pulled itself out of recession on strong performance by the industrial and service sectors. Brazil’s gross domestic product expanded 1.9% in the second quarter compared with the first quarter this year, the Brazilian [...]
A voice for the emerging nations
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 [...]
David Neeleman thinks Brazil is just as good a place to do business as America
THE ECONOMIST – When David Neeleman returned to Brazil as a 19-year old Mormon missionary, he spent two years among shoeless children and their toothless parents in the country’s poor north-east. The experience turned him into “kind of an anarchist”, he says. His band of missionaries rented a house in Recife that was next to [...]
Foreign investors targeting Brazilian market
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 [...]
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 [...]