The market value of the Brazilian state-owned oil company rose 81% from December to August, totalling US$ 173.59 billion, according to consultancy firm Economática. Last year, the company ranked 17th.
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The country re-exported US$ 8.9 billion to the Indian market last year. The figure is nearly ten times higher than Brazilian exports to India. Precious stones head the export product list.
The bank was responsible for 44% of the financing contracts in June. The business volume reached US$ 1.3 billion, 28% more than in May.
The daring colours and modelling by designer Dafna Edery have promoted a revolution in the family company, which has been making wallets and accessories for 30 years, and opened the foreign market.
The new feature in this edition of “Patrícios – Sírios e libaneses em São Paulo,” which tells the story of immigration, is research on new Arab immigrants arriving in the city, the Muslims.
A delegation from the Arab country will be at Mercopar, Latin America’s leading industrial outsourcing and innovation fair. The event is held in October in the state of Rio Grande do Sul.
Accessory designers Thereza and Paula Lino, who already export to the United States, Greece and Belgium, are negotiating with an Arab importer, the owner of several shops in the emirate.
The region should increase its ethylene production by 13% up to 2012 and become the leading supplier to Asia. In Brazil, the sector works to become more competitive and reduce imports.
Brasília should host the International Symposium on Social Development, to cover the advances and challenges faced by developing countries in defeating poverty and inequality.
Of Syrian descent, the teacher, dancer and choreographer should promote, on the 23rd, a series of lessons for those aiming to enrich their Arab dance steps and movements with classical music.
The oil company is going to spend the funds in universities and research institutes in order to turn the Brazilian energy sector technology cluster into one of the best equipped in the world.
Brasília – The international financial crisis put a brake on the expansion of Brazilian companies’ investment in the foreign productive sector. Figures supplied by the Brazilian Central Bank show that, from January to June, net return on funds invested outside of the country totalled US$ 1.798 billion. The figures also show that the majority of
Rio de Janeiro – Brazilian industry grew 0.2% in June when compared to May, the sixth positive rate running. The relative result in the first half of the year, however, shows the worst result since the beginning of the recording of the Monthly Physical Industrial Production Research, in 1975. In the first six months of
The figure resulted from US$ 14 billion in exports and US$ 11 billion in imports. So far this year, the surplus is US$ 17 billion.

