Brazilian industry activity decreased by 0.8% over December and 2.6% compared to January 2018, according to IBGE.
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IBGE published Brazilian industry progress over last year. Only in December there was also an increase.
Unemployment in Brazil posted a slight decrease and stood at 12.3%, according to Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics.
Change was higher than in 2017. Extended National Consumer Price Index was influenced specially by the 4% increase in food prices.
The Extended National Consumer Price Index (IPCA) slid by 0.21% as it dropped to its lowest for the month since 1994. Transportation and Housing saw the sharpest drops in prices.
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.
Production slid in August from July but picked up by 2% over August 2017.
In 2017, Brazil’s cattle herd and milk output declined, but the number of birds in the poultry industry rose.
The country sent 7.72 million cattle to slaughter in the second quarter of this year, a 4% hike in volume over the same period of 2017.
Total volume dropped 0.3% in June from May, as per a survey from the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics (IBGE).
The number of active enterprises in the country by the end of 2016 was 5.05 million, according to the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics (IBGE). The number is down 1.3% from 2015.
The Gross Domestic Product registered a growth of 0.4% over 2017’s last three months and 1.2% over the same period of last year.
According to the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics (IBGE), by the end of March there were 13.7 million people out of work in the country.
