Visitor numbers increased by 167% at the Sambadrome and by 203% in street parades, compared with last year’s numbers.
Author: Agência Brasil
Agreements signed on Tuesday amount to USD 2.225 billion and include stakes in pre-salt oilfields.
Brazil saw a primary surplus of BRL 6.7 billion. For the full-year result, however, a BRL 143 billion deficit is expected.
The state-run Brazilian Airport Infrastructure Company (Infraero) estimates that the airports it manages in the country will handle 3.3 million passengers during the holiday this year.
The treaty was reached under the aegis of the WTO. It has been ratified by 110 countries and became effective this Wednesday. It is expected to bring an additional USD 1 trillion to global trade.
Such was the increase in passenger numbers registered by Brazilian airlines. Demand for domestic flights eased by 1.4%, the industry association reported.
The domestic and foreign debt dropped to BRL 3.05 trillion in January from December, according to numbers from Brazil’s National Treasury Secretariat.
USD 11.5 billion were invested in Brazil’s productive sector last month, the highest amount for a January since the Brazilian Central Bank began keeping records, in 1995.
Consumption during trips to other countries reached USD 1.5 billion in January, the Central Bank reported. In January of last year, expenditure had reached USD 840 million.
The slumping economy led to a 4.5% decline in oil products consumption last year in the country. In 2015 from 2014, consumption had also gone down, but not at as sharp a rate.
Brazilian family farmers are exhibiting at Biofach, the world’s premier organic products exhibition, which began this Wednesday in Germany.
Cargo volume handled in Brazil in 2016 was slightly down from the year before as a result of the maize crop failure, according to data from the National Agency for Waterway Transportation (Antaq).
An index from Brazilian think tank Fundação Getulio Vargas and Germany’s Ifo institute slid between October 2016 to January 2017. The scenarios in Brazil, Mexico and Argentina played a part.
Expectations from financial market players regarding the Brazilian economy in 2017 have edged back from 0.49% to 0.48%.
