Truck Drivers Protest Rising Fuel Prices in Brazil
Since the beginning of the year the price of diesel fuel has increased by eight percent, while inflation during the...
May 22, 2018Topic
Business
Brazil to Maintain Benchmark Interest Rate at 6.5 Percent
The scenario of volatility and the appreciation of the US dollar around the world is decreasing investor interest in emerging...
May 17, 2018
Brazil Criticizes U.S. Steel Import Tariffs and Quotas
With the measures, the retraction of finished steel product exports may be as high as to sixty percent.
May 3, 2018
U.S. Dollar Closes at Highest Rate in Almost Two Years
Domestic political uncertainties coupled with international volatility led the Brazilian real to plunge to R$3.50/US$1 on Wednesday afternoon.
April 26, 2018
Brazil’s Samarco Gets Extension to Settle Dam Spill Damages
Courts gave Samarco, Vale and BHP until end of June to reach agreement on R$155 billion lawsuit for 2015 dam...
April 23, 2018
EU Bans 35 Percent of Brazil’s Chicken Meat Exports
Brazil's government announced it will complain to the WTO the ban that affects twenty production plants throughout the country.
April 20, 2018
Work Stops on the VLT Line 3 Extension in Rio’s Centro
Work on the Line 3 extension to the VLT in Centro appears to have come to a stop, leaving an...
April 20, 2018
Brazil Registers Lowest March Inflation in 24 Years
Positive data may help Brazilian market and currency, both of which took a dive on Monday due to political uncertainties...
April 10, 2018
Brazilian Postal Workers Remain on Strike in Rio and São Paulo
Strikers protest the state-owned company’s plans to change employee health plans.
March 13, 2018