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Trade between Kenya and Brazil, which grew sixfold to $91 million between 2002 and 2009, “still lags behind possibilities,” Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva […]

The United States has deposited $30 million in an account owned by the Brazilian Cotton Institute (“IBA”) as part of a deal to avoid retaliations after […]

BY THE standards of the protests that typically accompany summits of world leaders, the damage following last weekend’s G20 gathering in Toronto was relatively modest: some […]

Brazilian policy makers will raise the benchmark interest rate to 12.13 percent, up from a week- earlier forecast of 12 percent, according to the median forecast […]

Dados do mercado financeiro mostram que os investidores não levaram muito a sério a decisão do primeiro-ministro português, José Sócrates, de vetar a venda, à Telefónica, […]

O ministro de Negócios Estrangeiros da Turquia, Ahmet Davutoglu, afirmou ao jornal turco “Hurriyet”, que o seu país cortará relações com Israel caso este não peça […]

A fiscalização de cargas e bagagens de passageiros em portos, aeroportos e postos de fronteiras –as aduanas– no país está ameaçada de parar nos próximos dias, […]

A diminuição da quantidade de abelhas pode prejudicar a cultura de frutos como melão, manga, melancia e goiaba no Brasil. A bióloga e pesquisadora da Embrapa […]

A Comissão de Constituição e Justiça e de Cidadania aprovou nesta quarta-feira regras para fixar indenizações por danos morais. Pelo texto (Projeto de Lei 1914/03), o […]

Projetos de lei que tramitam na Câmara preveem a dedução, no Imposto de Renda, de diversos gastos dos contribuintes com saúde, educação e segurança. Normalmente, as […]

A jurisprudência do Superior Tribunal de Justiça (STJ) é clara no entendimento de que a personalidade jurídica de uma empresa não pode ser confundida com a […]

AT THE moment only one thing matters to Brazilians: the performance of the national football team in the World Cup, where lifting the trophy for the […]

Federal Reserve Chairman Ben S. Bernanke and then-New York Fed President Timothy Geithner  told senators on April 3, 2008, that the tens of billions of dollars […]

Brazil’s economy may expand at the fastest pace in more than two decades in 2010, pushing inflation further above the government’s target this year and next, […]

Was the summit of the Group of 20 leading economies in Canada over the weekend a step forward towards co-operation or a step backwards towards disagreement? […]

Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva said Tuesday that a free trade agreement between Mercosur and the European Union, which is being negotiated in Buenos […]

Brazil’s President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva said on Tuesday that he wishes to boost his country’s trade with Italy. Earlier in the day, President Lula […]

Members of Congress are revising an agreement on reform of the US financial sector after Republicans objected to a tax on large financial institutions. After a […]

Growing fears of a double-dip recession, driven by signs of a slowdown in China, worry over the strength of the European banking system and a big […]

A dívida líquida do setor público chegou a R$ 1,371 trilhão em maio, resultado que representa 41,4% do Produto Interno Bruto (PIB), soma de todos os […]