Brazil's aircraft maker Embraer posted growth of 32% in net revenues in the first quarter this year, compared with the same period last year. It totaled 2.3 billion reais...

The issuing of Global bonds in the European and United States market, announced this Wednesday, May 7, by Brazil's National Treasury, is going to total US$ 500 million. The...

Guido Mantega, Brazil's Finance minister, announced in Brazilian capital Brasília that the Brazilian government is working on creating a sovereign wealth fund of as much as US$ 20 billion....

A national registry in Brazil is going to select products and services suppliers to the seven largest oil companies in the country. The Registry System of Suppliers to the...

A postcard from Cairo arrives at the house of a youth in São Paulo. in southeastern Brazil. The correspondence is from his identical twin brother, from whom he has...

Marcopolo, the Brazilian bus and bus body maker, wants to invest 50 million reais (US$ 30.1 million) in its domestic production units by the month of October. The funds...

Brazil, more than conquering new markets, wants to diversify its exports to countries that are already large importers of Brazilian agribusiness products. It is with that goal in mind...

Brazil is not that poor little thing anymore and the country will not allow foreign busybodies to tell Brazilians what they should do. That's the...

In Brazil, May started with a deficit in the balance of trade (exports minus imports). According to data disclosed by the Brazilian Ministry of Development, Industry and Foreign Trade,...

Less large loans for the federal government and more small and medium loans for state governments, with emphasis on investment in infrastructure and on the reduction of inequality. This...

The trade balance surplus (exports minus imports) in April was US$ 1.744 billion, according to figures supplied by the Ministry of Development, Industry and Foreign Trade. Exports reached US$...

Brazil's investment grade classification granted to the country by rating agency Standard Poor's should provide further incentives to the entry of foreign direct investment (FDI)...

The auto market in Brazil has posted growth of 29.33% in sales of light vehicles in the first quarter of this year over the same period in 2007. Figures...

US company Kraft and Sadia S.A., a Brazilian food firm, have established a joint venture for the production, trade and distribution of cheese under the brand Philadelphia, produced by...

The Brazilian stock exchange (Bovespa), this Friday, May 2, in its first trading session since Brazil was raised to investment grade by Standard and Poor's (the Bovespa was closed...

Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, the Brazilian president, celebrated Brazil's newly acquired investment grade condition, which is a magnet for foreign investment by saying: Brazil is a...

Brazil's Finance Minister, Guido Mantega, has just announced a 10% hike in the price of gasoline and 15% for diesel fuel, the first such increase since 2005. The increases...

Twelve European Members of Parliament are currently in Brazil to assess livestock and beef conditions, and the Brazilian biofuel industry. The visit is considered significant because Brazil has only...

Ibovespa, Brazil's stock exchange index, jumped to a record on Wednesday, April 30, after Standard Poor's unexpectedly raised the country's credit rating to investment grade. S P...

The recent election of former Bishop Fernando Lugo as President of Paraguay poses a sticky dilemma for the Vatican and underscores the hostile political environment facing incoming Pope Benedict...

Exports from Rio Grande do Sul state industry, in the South of Brazil, grew 22% in the first quarter when compared to the same period in 2007. In total,...

The Syrian-Lebanese Hospital, in São Paulo, in the Brazilian Southeast, is going to start training Brazilian doctors to do surgeries using the Da Vinci robot, a device used by...

Brazil is preparing to rise in the global ranking of leading holders of plant species. The Brazilian Agricultural Research Corporation (Embrapa), linked to the Brazilian Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock...

The Brazilian plan to make Brazil one of the world's biggest oil exporters hinges on exploiting crude 6 miles below the ocean surface in deposits so hot they can...

2008 is shaping up as a banner year for Brazilian small businesses. Revenues of micro and small companies from the state of Rio de Janeiro, in southeastern Brazil, posted...

Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) into Brazil hit a record high in March. According to the Brazilian Central Bank, the US$ 3.083 billion result was the best ever recorded for...

The balance between entry and exit of foreign currency in trade and financial operations involving Brazil and foreign countries, from April 1st to 24th, was positive at US$ 4.934...

Sales from the state of Paraná, in the Brazilian South, to the Arab market once again rose above the average to other destinations. While exports to the Middle East...

Louis-Jacques Mandé Daguerre (1787-1851) was a French artist from whose name was coined the expression daguerreotype. The daguerreotype supposedly was the first 'photographic' technique to be invented....

The Brazilian balance of trade posted a negative balance once again. According to figures disclosed today, April 28, by the Brazilian Ministry of Development, Industry and Foreign Trade, during...