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 […]
Yemen risks providing a permanent new haven for al-Qaida without urgent help to rebuild its deteriorating economy, quell internal revolts and bolster work to tackle terrorism, […]
Ano a ano cresce o número de investidores pessoa física na BM&F Bovespa. Em dezembro de 2009, a bolsa registrava 552.364 investidores de varejo, ante 536.483 […]
O presidente da França, Nicolas Sarkozy, defendeu ontem a adoção de critérios trabalhistas, ambientais e de saúde para regular o comércio mundial. O Brasil tem sido […]
A Advocacia-Geral da União (AGU) vai contestar sentenças judiciais que garantem a servidores do Executivo remunerações acima do teto do funcionalismo. Em uma iniciativa inédita, o […]
Vale, the world’s largest miner of iron ore, yesterday confirmed it had reached a deal to expand its fertiliser business through the purchase of Bunge assets […]
O aumento dos gastos do governo, que em 2009 registrou a maior alta desde 2005, e a diminuição na arrecadação federal – impostos, contribuições federais e […]
O governo se prepara para mais uma medida para aumentar o controle sobre os contratos de derivativos financeiros, instrumento usado por investidores para se proteger das […]