{"id":56472,"date":"2017-02-17T13:18:00","date_gmt":"2017-02-17T15:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/escaesco.com.br\/lab\/anba\/foreign-direct-investment-breaks-record\/"},"modified":"2019-06-30T12:48:33","modified_gmt":"2019-06-30T15:48:33","slug":"foreign-direct-investment-breaks-record","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/foreign-direct-investment-breaks-record\/","title":{"rendered":"Foreign direct investment breaks record"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>S&atilde;o Paulo &ndash; Foreign direct investment (FDI) in Brazil &ndash; i.e. investments made in the country&rsquo;s productive sector &ndash; hit USD 11.528 billion in January 2017, the Brazilian Central Bank reported this Friday (17). It was the highest amount for a January since 1995, when record-taking began. In January 2016, FDI had reached USD 5.455 billion.<\/p>\n<p>According to the head of the Central Bank&rsquo;s Economic Department, Tulio Maciel, it is uncommon to see such an influx early in the year. Maciel explained that the result was fueled by operations in the electric power sector. &ldquo;We had electric power industry acquisitions in the month,&rdquo; he said. <\/p>\n<p><strong>*Translated by Gabriel Pomerancblum<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>USD 11.5 billion were invested in Brazil\u2019s productive sector last month, the highest amount for a January since the Brazilian Central Bank began keeping records, in 1995.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2315,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[91],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-56472","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-economy"},"wps_subtitle":"USD 11.5 billion were invested in Brazil\u2019s productive sector last month, the highest amount for a January since the Brazilian Central Bank began keeping records, in 1995.","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56472","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2315"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=56472"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56472\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56472"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56472"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56472"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}