Actividades de Construccion y Servicios SA won a contract to build a 500-megawatt combined- cycle gas-fired power plant for MPX Energia SA (MPXE3) for about 260 […]
O ministro da Agricultura, Wagner Rossi, pediu demissão no início da noite de hoje (17). Rossi entregou uma carta à presidenta Dilma Rousseff justificando a decisão […]
O Tribunal de Contas da União determinou nesta quarta-feira (17) a indisponibilidade de bens por um ano, de forma cautelar, de 28 envolvidos com o desvio […]
O ministro dos Transportes, Paulo Sérgio Passos, voltou a negar nesta quarta-feira seu envolvimento em supostos esquemas de corrupção na pasta. Em audiência pública na Câmara, […]
O líder do governo no Congresso, deputado Mendes Ribeiro (PMDB-RS), foi indicado pelo partido para substituir o ex-ministro Wagner Rossi no Ministério da Agricultura, que pediu […]
Simon Johnson, the former chief economist at the International Monetary Fund, is the co-author of “13 Bankers.” With the United States and European economies having slowed […]
O presidente dos EUA, Barack Obama, disse durante entrevista concedida à rede de notícias CNN nesta terça-feira (16) que entregará ao Congresso um plano abrangente para […]
The world’s largest financial institutions warned Wednesday that proposed rule changes in the European Union could encourage insurance companies to invest in riskier assets like bank […]
A Comissão de Assuntos Sociais aprovou nesta quarta-feira (17) projeto de lei de autoria do senador Paulo Paim (PT-RS) que objetiva simplificar o pagamento, hoje facultativo, […]
Brazilian Agriculture Minister Wagner Rossi resigned after corruption allegations, the fourth top official to leave President Dilma Rousseff’s government in less than three months. Rossi, from […]
The director of Finances at Petrobrás, Almir Barbassa, says the decision to maintain prices stable and not follow market variations in the second quarter meant that […]
O Plenário do Senado Federal aprovou por unanimidade, na tarde desta quarta-feira (17), em uma segunda votação, as novas regras de tramitação das Medidas Provisórias (MPs). […]
Petrobrás reports that its domestic and international production rose 2% in the first half of 2011, compared to the same period last year. Total production reached […]
The Justice Department is investigating whether the nation’s largest credit ratings agency, Standard & Poor’s, improperly rated dozens of mortgage securities in the years leading up […]
Credit rating downgrades in the United States and Europe may have thrown into sharp relief the improving quality of emerging debt but as a shelter from […]
While the global spotlight has been on the political and economic crises rocking Europe and the US, Dilma Rousseff, Brazil’s president, has had her own share […]
Plans for a new Robin Hood-style tax on financial dealings hit shares in stock exchange operators on Wednesday, as the financial markets balked at the latest […]
Traders are betting the Brazilian central bank will lower borrowing costs as soon as October in the fastest reversal of monetary policy in 10 years to […]