A World Bank survey concluded that global economic growth this year should be slow but more solid than in 2010. Developing countries should grow by 6%.
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With the preparation for the World Cup and the Brazilian Olympics, the tendency is for business travels to grow. The forecast by Abracorp is for growth of 15% to 20% this year.
The figure was 9% higher in 2010 than in the previous year. Exports totalled US$ 1.4 billion, and imports reached US$ 4.9 billion.
The hotel in Anguilla, a British territory, should be inaugurated in three years.
A farm from Minas Gerais exports 150 tons of atemoya to Canada and Portugal. The company expects 50% in growth in 2011.
In the first week of the month, the flow of foreign exchange recorded a US$ 477 million surplus, whereas the flow of finance reached US$ 3.623 billion.
The volume of petrol traded in the last month of the year totalled 1.966 million cubic metres. This volume exceeds the previous record, for March 2010, by 50,000 cubic metres.
Businessmen from the sector evaluate that Brazilian exports should continue rising this year, even more than imports. Business should be boosted by agricultural and mining commodities.
In the first week of January, Brazilian exports reached US$ 2.781 billion, as against US$ 3.267 billion in imports.
Apex Tool Group, a North American maker of tools, exports to Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, the United Arab Emirates, Qatar and Jordan from the Brazilian unit.
Petrobras’ transport sector arm has invited 16 companies, five Brazilian and 11 foreign, for a tender. The company commissioned more than 40 vessels over the last few years.
The company announced the charter of two platforms to operate in Santos Basin, starting in 2014. Each one will have a capacity for production of 150,000 barrels of oil a day.
Sales in Brazil grew by 23.8% in 2010 and reached 68,500 units. The output increased by 34%.
Brazilian automakers have set the target of returning to pre-crisis levels in 2011.
