Industrial revenues increased by 0.9% in Brazil in March as against February, but the use of installed capacity dropped by 0.5 percentage point, according to the National Confederation of Industries.
Author: Agência Brasil
The president of the International Red Cross has called for extra funding of US$ 27 million for the organisation to maintain humanitarian aid in Syria. The country has been in conflict for 14 months.
Automobile manufacturing dropped by 15.5% in April compared with March, according to the National Association of Vehicle Manufacturers (Anfavea). A total of 260,200 new units were made.
Finance market projections have been slightly altered. The estimate for growth of the Brazilian GDP is now 3.23%.
The equivalent volumes of oil and gas were obtained by Brazil in March. The performance in the country represented a 5% reduction over February.
According to the company’s president Graça Foster, recent oil discoveries have increased its interest in the continent even further. Petrobras already operates in seven African countries.
The demand increased by 6.83% in the first three months of the year compared with the same period of 2011, according to the Abegás.
The Brazilian trade balance had a US$ 881 million surplus in April, as a result of US$ 19.5 billion in exports and US$ 18.6 billion in imports.
The inflow of dollars exceeded the outflow by US$ 5.8 billion last month, up to the 27th, according to the Central Bank.
The number of Brazilian enterprises that did not honour their obligations grew in March this year compared with the same month in 2011.
The number of foreigners and Brazilians who returned to the country after having lived abroad reached 286,500 in 2010, according to the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics.
The primary public sector surplus reached US$ 5.5 billion reals in March, according to the Central Bank. The first quarter suplus was US$ 24.3 billion.
Despite the international instability, the state-owned company’s investment forecasted for 2012 is the greatest in history and should reach R$ 88 billion (US$ 47 billion).
The figure concerns foreign sales made from Brazil last week, and is 11.3% higher than in the preceding week.
