IMF staff concluded its visit to the Arab country this Thursday (1) and praised the improvement in fiscal management and diversification of the economy. The GDP should grow 4.4% in 2017 against 2% this year.

The multinational and its local partner NBC opened the facilities this week. It’s the brand’s fourth bottling plant in Palestine, with the other three located in West Bank.

Production in Brazil averaged 2.624 million barrels a day, gas included, up 9% from October 2015. In October from September, however, output was down 1.8%.

It was the 7th consecutive quarter-on-quarter contraction according to the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics (IBGE). Brazil’s Ministry of Finance points to corporate indebtedness as the cause.