Four Brazilian companies are exhibiting their products at WETEX 2018 in a stand set up by the Arab Chamber. The fair began this Tuesday and runs until Thursday.
The Arab Chamber’s Michel Alaby, Apex-Brasil’s Karen Jones and the Paraná Development Agency’s Adalberto Neto are attending the Future Investments Initiative conference, which began this Tuesday in Riyadh.
Dubai-based port operator DP World handled 53.6 million TEUs from January to September. The company operates in the port of Santos.
Weakening production and employment levels continue to hamper a rebound, according to the National Confederation of Industry (CNI).
Brazil’s IPCA-15 index is up 0.09% in October from September.
Mostra Mundi has handcrafted items from five countries and runs until October 29, at mall Pátio Paulista.
The beans produced at Chapada de Minas Gerais and Cerrado Mineiro were the winners in the international round of the award.
That’s the forecast made by financial institutions in Brazil for the Extended National Consumer Price Index (IPCA) in 2018. Last week, their estimate stood at 4.43%. It’s the sixth straight time that banks revise up their forecast.
The signing of a deal covering 17 non-tariff-related issues is expected to happen in December. Tariffs have been lifted under a previous deal entered into by the Andean country and Mercosur.
Such was the amount by which Brazil’s Gross Domestic Product widened from June to August, as per think tank Fundação Getulio Vargas’ GDP Monitor.
The business meeting will take place on November 7, in São Paulo, and will be attended by the country’s minister of Investment and International Cooperation, Sahar Nasr, and Mohab Mamish, chairman of the Suez Canal Authority, plus business owners.
Online magazine Revista Pessoa will release translated works by 12 writers, including Milton Hatoum, Raduan Nassar, Marcelo Maluf and Socorro Acioli next year, via a partnership involving Abu Dhabi’s Kalima Project for Translation and the Arab Chamber.
Aswan University and Al-Azhar University have registrations open until November 9 for those interested in working with teaching and research in the Arab country.
The event features over 3 million books on offer with discounts as high as 80%. The Big Bad Wolf Book Sale began this Thursday and will go on around the clock until the 28th this month.

