The result is the highest ever for a February in Brazil since record-keeping began in 1989. The USD 7.3 billion surplus year-to-date through February was also an all-time high for the period.
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The minutes from the latest meeting of the Monetary Policy Committee show a willingness to accelerate cuts in the benchmark interest rate, which is now 12.25% per annum.
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.
Exports to the region reached USD 967 million last year, the Brazilian mining company reported. Vale bounced back from its 2015 loss to post a profit of USD 3.982 billion.
The rate of locally-made equipment and services will be reduced by 50% in oil and gas drilling tenders.
Foreign sales of capital goods from Brazil reached USD 446 million in January, a decline of 12% compared with January of last year.
A USD 1.249 billion surplus was recorded in the third week of February, with exports reaching USD 4.274 billion and imports amounting to USD 3.025 billion.
The Brazilian federal government will create rules in a bid to attract international capital into the oil refinement market, currently near single-handedly dominated by state-run company Petrobras.
The domestic and foreign debt dropped to BRL 3.05 trillion in January from December, according to numbers from Brazil’s National Treasury Secretariat.
The Executive arm of the Doha-based carrier is looking for women with at least five years’ experience working at international airlines. Fluent English is required and the maximum age is 35.
Colonel Sylvio Pessoa will discuss logistics in connection with the environment at the Holy Spirit University of Kaslik next Monday (20), in an open-to-the-public event.
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.
