With the domestic market slumping, the sector searches for a recovery of foreign sales as a way to produce more. Decline of 11.2% in revenues should improve to almost half of this percentage until the end of the year.

Financial institutions polled by the Brazilian Central Bank have changed their economic contraction estimate for 2015 from 1.49% to 1.5%, for the seventh straight time.

The Arab country is in the midst of a civil war and 21 million residents are in need of assistance. The World Food Programme announced that 3 million tons of supplies are due for delivery next week.