The country ranks 120th in the World Bank’s list of countries with the most ease of doing business. The survey measures aspects such as access to credit, to electricity, starting a business etc.
Author: Da Redação
Foreign travel spending amounted to US$ 2.4 billion in September, a record figure for the month. North American currency appreciated by 9.6% in the same period.
Watch in this episode: The Lebanese Minister of Foreign Affairs visits Brazil, the Saudi Cultural Days in São Paulo, and the Big 5 show, in Dubai.
British company will extract gas by drilling through rocks in the Arab country. The project is worth US$ 730 million.
Whoever takes office will need to put Brazil back on growth track. For such, they will need to invest in infrastructure, embrace sustainable development, increase legal safety, cut taxes and make reforms.
Agreement allows clients from one company to book tickets via the other. In flights with layovers in São Paulo and Casablanca, travellers will not need to recheck their luggage.
The announcement was made by CEO Mary Barra to president Dilma Rousseff, in Brasília, and the sum should go into new products and improvements in current models up until 2018.
Watch in this episode: ‘Iraq: From its origins and in search of a destiny’, a book by ambassador Bernardo de Azevedo Brito; Brazilian Week at The Sultan Center Supermarket, in Kuwait; and a lecture about double taxation.
Federal, state, municipal governments and state-owned companies posted a combined deficit of US$ 937.39 million in June for the second consecutive month. In May the negative balance was at US$ 4.93 billion.
Dollar outflow surpassed inflow by US$ 4.68 billion in Brazil by July 25th.
The United Nations Human Rights Council announced it will hold an extraordinary meeting this Wednesday (21st) to debate Israeli military operation in the Gaza Strip.
Financial organizations analysts revised down the Brazilian economic growth forecast for 2014 for the eighth consecutive week. It has been moved from 1.05% last week to 0.97% in the current week.
Head of state and government from South Africa, Russia and Germany are among the ones who have confirmed their attendance at the World Cup final next Sunday in Rio de Janeiro.
Watch in this episode: The new building of the HCor Hospital named after Doctor Adib Jatene; Ambassador Paulo Cordeiro is the Arab Chamber Personality 2014; the Apas supermarket exhibition; and the city of Fortaleza.

