The goal of a U.N. resolution adopted 10 years ago to put women in decision-making positions at every level of peacemaking and peacebuilding is not being […]
A severe drought has dropped water levels on a major Amazon tributary to their lowest point since officials began keeping records more than a century ago, […]
BRAZIL is famous for stunning beaches, carnivals and great footballers. But now the world is going nuts for something else – the country’s ECONOMY. In just […]
Trading in Brazil’s longest-maturity bonds is drying up after President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva tripled a tax on foreigners’ purchases of local debt. Daily average […]
Commission proposal calls for deep geological storage of waste radioactive material. The European Commission will urge member states to bury their radioactive waste deep underground as […]
Na última semana, sete Recursos Extraordinários (REs) envolvendo matéria de direito tributário tiveram repercussão geral reconhecida pelos ministros do Supremo Tribunal Federal (STF). Entre os temas, […]
COM A ECONOMIA mundial ainda em frangalhos, a escalada dos preços internacionais das commodities é um fenômeno que chama a atenção. Nos últimos meses, várias delas […]
O Ministério do Trabalho enviou à Casa Civil da Presidência da República projeto de lei que atualiza os valores das multas estabelecidas pela legislação trabalhista. Em […]
Se as novas medidas de aumento do Imposto sobre Operações Financeiras (IOF) para o capital externo não surtirem o efeito desejado, o governo estuda enviar ao […]
German Economy Minister Rainer Bruederle on Saturday took issue with what he called a US policy of increasing liquidity, saying it indirectly manipulated exchange rates. The […]
O ministro da Fazenda, Guido Mantega, tenta estabelecer uma estratégia para impedir que a “guerra de moedas” contamine o comércio e que governos usem desvalorizações como […]
The European Union’s member states have referred Serbia’s application for membership in the EU to the European Commission, a first step toward candidacy status. Ministers agreed […]
A G20 agreement to give emerging market countries more power in the International Monetary Fund opens the door for breakthroughs on easing global tensions over trade […]
Stock markets in the biggest developing nations may double as the U.S. Federal Reserve’s monetary stimulus sends valuations back to their 2008 peak, Dylan Grice, a […]
AFTER months in which even his fellow party members had given him up for lost, José Serra, the runner-up in the first round of Brazil’s presidential […]
Brazil’s longest-maturity fixed-rate bonds are tumbling the most on record this week as a tax increase on foreigners squelches a surge in demand sparked by opposition […]
O aumento do Imposto sobre Operações Financeiras (IOF) nos investimentos estrangeiros em renda fixa, de 4% para 6%, e a elevação da taxa de conversão cambial […]
O relator-geral da proposta orçamentária para 2011, senador Gim Argello (PTB-DF), vai aguardar a votação do relatório da receita na Comissão Mista de OrçamentoA Comissão Mista […]