Power company Companhia Energética de São Paulo (CESP) was sold to the sole bidder at the São Paulo Stock Exchange this Friday (19).
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An index which tracks confidence among industrial business owners in Brazil’s economy gained 0.9 point in October from September.
The North American currency ended this Thursday at BRL 3.72, going up 1.11% over the previous day.
There was a 0.6% slide in August over July, as revealed by the IPEA Indicator of Apparent Consumption of Industrial Goods.
The country appears at the 72nd position out of 140 economices in a report released by the World Economic Forum.
A Brazilian Central Bank index shows the economy picking up in August from July. Year-on-year, activity increased by 2.5%.
Gross revenue climbed 1.2% over July, after slowing in July from June. Transportation was key.
Exports daily average stood 10.5% above the one registered in October’s first week, according to the Ministry of Industry, Foreign Trade and Services (MDIC).
The global foreign direct investment (FDI) flows reached USD 470 billion in H1 2018, according to UNCTAD, under the impact of earnings repatriations to the US.
Financial market players responding to a Brazilian Central Bank poll expect prices to have gone up 4.43% by the end of this year, up from a 4.40% forecast as of last week.
September saw 81,590 units made in industry cluster Polo Industrial de Manaus. The industry revised up its 2018 output growth projection.
Foreign sales of basic goods rose 2.7% in September, while sales of other items dropped 7%, according to Fundação Getulio Vargas (FGV).
Complaints filed by other countries against the export of Brazilian goods cause exports of said goods to decrease by 86% on average, the National Confederation of Industry (CNI) said.
The company’s president said at a conference that there are plans to increase current oil and gas output from 4.8 million bpd to 6.5 million bpd in the next eight years.
