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Small business groups and accountants have warned of accounts chaos in April after the Government refused to back down over controversial plans to force all accounts […]

A inflação medida pelo Índice de Preços ao Consumidor Semanal (IPC-S) diminuiu em seis das sete capitais pesquisadas pela Fundação Getulio Vargas (FGV) na segunda semana […]

Group of 20 finance chiefs remain divided over the next steps to narrow global economic imbalances as they squabble over how to reach a diagnosis. French […]

The news that China is in talks to build a rail link through Colombia to challenge the Panama canal says much about the scale of Beijing’s […]

Since Brazil’s right-wing military dictatorship ended in 1985, the country has enjoyed a string of democratically elected and increasingly progressive administrations. But while neighbors like Chile […]

The federal bank regulator overseeing the nation’s largest lenders is pushing for a quick and modest settlement to the months-long federal and state probes into abusive […]

In a joint statement, the ministers of Finance of Brazil, Guido Mantega, and Argentina, Amado Boudou, declared that next week at the G-20 meeting in Paris […]

Farm sector exports in Janaury reached a record $5.1 billion, an increase of 26.3% over Janaury 2010, and according to the Ministry of Agriculture, the biggest […]

The World Bank Board of Directors approved Thursday a Private and Financial Sector Policy Based Guarantee (PFSPBG) for Serbia of up to EURO 300 million (not […]

The  Central Bank’s latest weekly market survey, Focus, found that market forecasts for GDP growth this year have fallen from 4.60% to 4.50%. The forecast for […]

The World Bank has given a stark warning of the impact of the rising cost of food, saying an estimated 44 million people had been pushed […]

Brazil has voiced its strongest opposition yet to any international move to control commodity prices and has insisted it will not join the US in an […]

De cada R$ 100 gastos em materiais escolares, em média R$ 35 vão para os cofres públicos. Carga tributária de uma simples caneta beira os 50% […]

Os recursos aplicados em publicidade na web devem alcançar o volume de gastos com propaganda nas mídias impressas – como jornais e revistas – já nos […]

Em meio aos protestos das centrais sindicais, o ministro da Fazenda, Guido Mantega, começou, agora há pouco, apresentação, no plenário da Câmara dos Deputados, justificando o […]

Tramita na Câmara o Projeto de Lei 59/11, do deputado Rubens Bueno (PPS-PR), que fixa em 10% a correção anual da tabela do Imposto de Renda […]

O texto, elaborado por uma comissão de juristas e já aprovado pelo Senado, tem o objetivo de agilizar a prestação judicial. A expectativa é que o […]

Arminio Fraga, ex-presidente do Banco Central (BC) e sócio da Gávea Investimentos, afirmou ontem que a economia já deu alguns sinais de desaquecimento, mas disse que […]

Brazil’s Bovespa stocks index reversed early declines to rally higher Monday as enthusiasm over purchasing trends abroad helped lift local share prices, especially in commodities-related sectors. […]

On paper, President Obama’s new $3.7 trillion budget is encouraging. It makes a number of tough choices to cut the deficit by a projected $1.1 trillion […]