The United States currency closed up 2% this Tuesday (13). The oil price slump and global market trepidation also weighed down on stock markets.
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The International Energy Agency slashed its consumption growth forecast for this year by 100,000 barrels per day and sees an even weaker expansion in 2017.
The program includes airports, maritime terminals, highways, railways, oil fields and energy companies. Auctions will take place this year and the next.
Sales from Brazil to the Arab countries climbed 17% in August from August 2015. Since the year began, the only increase had taken place in February. Sugar sales increased the most.
An increase in exports boosted Brazil’s foreign trade surplus in the last week. Revenues with exports totaled USD 3.4 billion. Year-to-date, the results are also positive.
Such was the net loss posted by the Qatar Investment Fund in the financial year ended June 30. The performance was imputed to low oil prices.
As per a Brazilian Central Bank poll of financial institutions, national Gross Domestic Product (GDP) is seen shrinking 3.18% this year. Last week’s projection had been 3.20%.
The inflation index IPCA reached this rate year-to-year according to an August measurement. The price increase surpassed the upper limit of the central government’s target, which is 6.5% per year.
Japan’s government will lend USD 2 million to the Arab country to be used in the reinforcement of security equipment in two airports.
Exports from Brazil to its two leading Arab buyers have declined in amount, total value and average price. Overall, foreign sales revenues for the Brazilian industry have gone up so far this year.
The company finalized the arrangements for the sale of NTS, which operates its network of gas pipelines in Brazil’s southeast.
The ‘abayana’ is the creation of dancer Martina Cancio, who turned her hobby of fashion design into a business. The piece is a mix of the Arab abaya with the lightness and colors of the Brazilian state of Bahia
New financing conditions for foreign sales have been approved by the Brazilian Development Bank (BNDES), mostly targeting companies in the USD 28.16-USD 93.87 million per year revenue range.
From January to August, the country shipped 312,396 fully assembled vehicles, up 19.6% over the same period of 2015. Foreign sales of agricultural and heavy machinery declined 11.7% in the same comparison.
