Brazil’s government is internally forecasting that the country’s economy will grow by 3.7 percent this year, below the 4 percent figure provided this week by Finance […]
The Gaddafi regime carried out an extraordinary clandestine lobbying operation to try to stop Nato’s bombardment of Libya, and believed the western allies were likely to […]
O número de trabalhadores norte-americanos que entraram pela primeira vez com pedido de auxílio-desemprego subiu 5 mil, para 417 mil, após ajustes sazonais, na semana até […]
O ministro da Previdência Social, Garibaldi Alves Filho, afirmou que se surpreendeu com o resultado da Previdência em julho. “O resultado me surpreendeu em face ao […]
As ações da Samsung, assim como de outros concorrentes asiáticos, subiram nesta quinta-feira na Ásia após o anúncio da saída do diretor-executivo da Apple, Steve Jobs, […]
O Diário Oficial da União publica na edição de hoje (25) os decretos de nomeação de cinco novos diretores para o Departamento Nacional de Infraestrutura de […]
Técnicos do Tribunal de Contas da União (TCU) apontaram irregularidades em convênios firmados pelo Ministério do Turismo com duas associações que recebem regularmente da pasta há […]
Brazil’s unemployment rate fell to its lowest level this year, undercutting bets that policy makers will reduce borrowing costs. Yields on interest rate futures jumped. Joblessness […]
O Instituto Nacional do Seguro Social (INSS) informou nesta quinta-feira que cerca de 24,6 milhões de beneficiários vão receber a primeira parcela do 13º salário. Os […]
Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff ranked third in a list of the world’s most powerful women released on Wednesday by U.S. business magazine Forbes. Rousseff was surpassed […]
Flávio Dino, the newly appointed head of the Brazilian Tourist Board (Embratur) has emphatically stated the country will be ready in time for FIFA 2014 World […]
A taxa de desemprego nas seis regiões metropolitanas pesquisadas pelo Instituto Brasileiro de Geografia e Estatística (IBGE) ficou em 6% em julho, segundo levantamento divulgado nesta […]
Experts tell Agência Brasil that recent attacks in public places and buildings by young children and adolescents (“arrastões”) are a sign of the inability of the […]
The president of Brazil’s state-run oil company, Petrobras, Jose Sergio Gabrielli, says that the recent reduction in petroleum and gas production was caused by more rigorous […]
The freak 2006 aviation accident that left 154 people dead after an executive jet sideswiped a passenger plane over the Amazon is back in court. In […]
The BBC’s Orla Guerin says rebels are continuing their search of Col Gaddafi’s compound. There have been fierce firefights in Bab al-Aziziya, as well as in […]
In its hurry to transport millions of barrels of oil from federal stockpiles to stabilize world oil prices earlier this summer, the Obama administration has repeatedly […]
Brazil’s slowdown just keeps getting slower and slower. Over the past few weeks, analysts have been furiously downgrading their GDP forecasts for the Latin American country […]