It’s the highest number of formal jobs with signed contracts lost in a month since 1992.
Author: Agência Brasil
A survey by ECLAC shows that more than 2.75 million Brazilians rose above the poverty and extreme poverty lines in 2014.
Alexandre Tombini, president of the Brazilian Central Bank (BC), spoke in the Senate that the BC will not shy away from measures to keep the inflation rate at the target’s center, which is 4.5%, next year.
Although the data from the sector is still signaling low activity, survey shows that business owners’ negative forecasts have been decreasing.
Analysts from the financial market revised their forecast for the fall of the Gross Domestic Product this year and it went from 3.54% to 3.60%, according to survey released by the Brazilian Central Bank.
Survey by the National Confederation of Industry reveals an improvement in the sector. There was a decline in pessimism and better numbers regarding employment.
Financial institutions surveyed by the Brazilian Central Bank worsened their estimation for the central government’s primary deficit this year, which previously signaled BRL 70.7 billion.
The president called as ‘speculations’ the possibility of changes in the economic team and the internal use of international reserves.
Dollar inflows overcame outflows in Brazil in USD 191 million until March 11.
Survey of the statistics institute shows little variation from the third to the fourth quarter. In the last three months of 2014, however, rate stood at 6.5%.
This is the estimation made by analysts of the financial institutions for price rising this year. Again they lowered the number, which was at 7.59% last week.
The Brazilian Central Bank’s index that measures the performance of the economy declined in January over December. Over the same month in 2015, the decline was more abrupt with 6.7%.
Such was the decline in activity compared with January of last year, according to a survey from the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics (IBGE).
The sixth 2015/2016 crop survey points to a 1.3% increase in Brazilian grains production.
