According to a survey conducted by the Brazilian Ministry of Tourism, foreigners visiting Brazil for the football tournament spent more and had higher incomes than traditional visitors.
Author: From the Newsroom
The volume of credit operations increased from June and reached nearly US$ 1.223 trillion. Funding to private individuals had the best performance.
The funds will be allocated to crop irrigation and pasture development projects in the North African country.
The result in the fourth week of August shows decline of US$ 214 million. Year-to-date, the deficit is running at US$ 785 million.
Approximately 2,400 tonnes of toiletries, blankets and kitchen sets will be delivered in the next few days to roughly 1.2 million internally displaced persons in the country.
The Brazilian financial institution posted a net income of nearly US$ 2.4 billion in H1 this year, up 68% from H1 2013. Return on equity was 8.53%.
Winning projects will be on showcase at the upcoming international industry conference next February in Doha. Registration is open until October 31st.
The Syrian Arab Culture Centre, in the city of São Paulo, will hold on the night of August 28th an event on poetry in Syria and through immigration.
Parliament established a commission to analyse the Libyan Central Bank’s request to revise the country’s accounts. Due to conflicts, Libya cannot reach an output of 800,000 barrels of oil per day.
Watch in this episode: Brazil-Oman Economic Forum; Jafza Road Show; ‘Ports: where do we go from here?’; Tunisian Minister of Industry, Kamel Ben Naceur, visit to São Paulo; and the success case of company Magnamed.
Brazil’s monetary authority announced measures which should circulate roughly US$ 11.05 billion in the country’s economy.
In the first half of this year, credit and debit card sales amounted to a combined US$ 202.2 billion.
According to figures from the Ministry of Labour, the number of formal jobs in the public and private sectors was up 3.14% from 2012.
Surplus in the third week reached US$ 684 million and pushed August to surplus as well. Year-to-date, however, there is a deficit of US$ 571 million.
