Why is economic liberalism so taboo in socially liberal Brazil? “ADMITTING to liberalism explicitly,” wrote Roberto Campos, a Brazilian politician, diplomat and swimmer against the tide […]
The biggest travel threat facing the world now is passport fraud, according to the chief of Interpol – the millions of stolen documents that could be […]
As contas públicas tiveram no ano passado o pior desempenho desde 2006 por causa da queda na arrecadação e do aumento de gastos promovido pelo governo. […]
O empresário brasileiro está otimista com o cenário macroeconômico no País para o primeiro semestre e vai acelerar a ampliação de investimentos no período. Esta é […]
Os responsáveis pela elaboração do padrão internacional de contabilidade, conhecido como IFRS, querem que os normativos sejam cada vez mais globais – e menos europeus -, […]
Larry Powell, vice-diretor de investimentos da Utah Retirement Systems (o sistema de aposentadoria dos funcionários públicos do Estado de Utah, no oeste dos Estados Unidos) , […]
The United States pledged Thursday to cut its greenhouse gas emissions by 17 percent by 2020 from 2005 levels under an international climate agreement, though it […]
U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton flew to Paris on Friday for talks with French officials and to give a speech on European security in […]
The World Economic Forum has honored Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva for his “global statesmanship” — a ceremony the leader couldn’t attend for health […]
O sistema bancário vai ser reformado porque existe no momento pressão política dos governos para que isso aconteça, segundo o vice-diretor-gerente do Fundo Monetário Internacional (FMI), […]
Brazilian local bond yields will plunge this year because traders are overestimating interest- rate increases in Latin America’s biggest economy, Bank of America Corp. and Pacific […]
French President Nicolas Sarkozy delivered an impassioned call for coordinated efforts to regulate the global financial system in a keynote speech here that comes as countries […]
The global economic recovery could lose pace later this year, dashing hopes for a rapid escape from the deepest downturn of the postwar era, economists and […]
Mahinda Rajapaksa, Sri Lanka’s president, was re-elected by a wide margin, election officials here said Wednesday, defeating the newly retired army general who had tried to […]