Cultural venue Sesc Santo Amaro, in São Paulo, will present a puppet theater based on Arab stories on July 16. Actress Cris Miguel, who is of Lebanese descent, created and performs the show.
Exports outpaced imports in the first half of this year in Brazil by the widest margin ever for the period. In June alone, a USD 3.9 billion surplus was achieved.
The footwear fair was visited by buyers from 45 countries, among them Saudi Arabia, Egypt, United Arab Emirates and Lebanon. In all, 1,100 foreigners attended the exhibition.
The regional edition of Halal Expo will run from November 6 to 8 in Chile and businesses from all over the world can exhibit. The event will feature seminars with industry specialists and matchmaking sessions.
After two months going up, industry’s performance remained stable in May. With this result, in the first five months of the year the decline almost reached 10%.
‘History in Icons’ will address power relations between State and religion at different points in time, from July 18 to 28 at the São Paulo Sacred Art Museum. Enrolment is open.
Foreigners set to travel to Brazil for the Olympics should visit other cities besides Rio. Foz do Iguaçu and the Northeast beaches are some of the destinations.
Brazil’s National Monetary Council is required to establish a target two years ahead of time, with 1.5 percentage point headroom up or down.
The Brazilian minister of Finance said reliance on Brazil’s recovery is increasing and that the government’s team of economists is working to change the scenario around.
A study by the International Monetary Fund says that the Arab country will take more than 20 years to return to the economic level it had before the conflict.
Such was the amount collected by 17 collective financing companies from 2012 through April 2016, according to a survey. Regulatory issues pose a challenge.
Foreign sales of capital goods from Brazil soared in May and year-to-date. Europe and China were the top buyers.
With inflation accounted for, there was a decrease of 2.16% over April and of 2.13% in comparison with May of last year.
The federal, states and municipal governments incurred the widest primary deficit on record for a May last month, the Brazilian Central Bank reported.

