Brazil’s Extended National Consumer Price Index ended 2017 up 2.95%, down from 6.29% in 2016.
Author: Agência Brasil
Sales were up 0.7% from October and 5.9% year-on-year, the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics (IBGE) said.
Think tank Fundação Getulio Vargas’s IGP-DI was driven by wholesale prices, which dropped by 2.52% last year.
As per the Brazilian Central Bank’s Focus Bulletin, financial market players polled expect 3.95% inflation and 2.69% economic growth this year.
The Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics (IBGE) reported that the national industry grew for the third month in a row, driven by intermediate and durable consumer goods.
The Brazilian state-run bank supplied USD 6.09 billion in credit to projects in this sector last year.
Last year saw 2.24 million automobiles, light commercial vehicles, trucks and buses sold across the country.
Brazil’s 2018 Budget Law provides for a USD 47 billion deficit and works with a 2.5% Gross Domestic Product (GDP) growth estimate.
Output in Brazil amounted to 2.595 million barrels per day, down 1.2% from October and 0.5% from November 2016.
Gas prices will drop by 0.1% at Brazilian refineries this Tuesday, while diesel’s will be up 0.6%.
According to the Aviation Safety Network, there were no fatal victims in flights by major airlines in 2017.
Federal, states and local governments in Brazil posted a combined USD 275 million deficit in November.
The indicator climbed 0.8 point in December from November, the Brazilian Institute of Economics at Fundação Getulio Vargas (FGV) said this Thursday (28).
Jobs creation was negative in November, the Brazilian Ministry of Labor reported, with 12,292 positions ceasing to exist.
