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Join Our Mailing ListSaks Fifth Avenue (Flagship store on 5th Avenue) is seeking talented, experienced, & entrepreneurial individuals, Portuguese speakers, to represent their brand from a selling & service perspective for their many luxury “...
Read moreOver 800 leaders from the international business, financial, and diplomatic communities gathered together last night, at the Warldorf=Astoria, in New York, to pay tribute to Luciano Coutinho, President of the Brazilian...
Read moreThe Brazilian-American Chamber of Commerce, in conjunction with the Financial Times and BNY Mellon, will visit the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) on Thursday, May 16, 2013 to celebrate its 43rd annual Person of the Year Awards....
Read moreGerman Chancellor Angela Merkel has visited Brazil once during her term, in 2008. Last year she cancelled participation in the UN Conference on Sustainable Development known as Rio+20, which disappointed Brazilians. The German...
Read moreDesde o final de 2008, a produção da indústria brasileira está estagnada. Em vez de enfrentar as causas estruturais da baixa competitividade da nossa indústria – infraestrutura precária, carga tributária excessivamente elevada,...
Read moreSotheby’s S|2 features this month “Brasil Vívido”, an exhibition of Brazilian contemporary art that includes some of the greatest artists of the avant-garde today. The exhibition, which Sotheby's organized relying on suggestions...
Read moreBrazilian petrochemical company Braskem (NYSE: BAK) said gross revenue rose 15% to 11.0bn reais (US$5.49bn) in the first quarter of 2013 and net income rose 49% to 227mn reais, as the company increased its share of Brazil's...
Read moreNortheastern Brazil's Bahia state has launched a consultancy tender to prepare urbanization plans for areas directly affected by the upcoming 7bn-real (US$3.49bn) bridge project between state capital Salvador and Itaparica island...
Read moreUS storage solutions supplier EMC (NYSE: EMC) sees Latin America as a region with growing business opportunities for the company in the coming years, chairman and CEO Joseph Tucci told reporters. Tucci said that EMC had been...
Read moreA eleição do diplomata Roberto Azevêdo à direção-geral da Organização Mundial do Comércio (OMC) representa uma grande vitória do Brasil. A questão, no entanto, é como transformá-la numa vitória para o Brasil. Globalmente, o...
Read moreBrazil's government should pursue reforms aimed at making the country a more attractive place to do business, instead of simply cutting taxes or interest rates to improve returns, billionaire financier André Esteves said on...
Read moreRoberto Azevedo, picked on Tuesday to head the World Trade Organization, is in every respect the quintessential Brazilian diplomat: a well-spoken, competent and smooth negotiator with a knack for wooing adversaries into his...
Read moreBrazilian President Dilma Rousseff said on Wednesday she has sent lawmakers another proposal to earmark all oil royalties collected by the state for public education after Congress shelved an earlier effort. She made the...
Read moreKorean home buyers and Chinese small firms, Brazilian motorists and Turkish banks are now among the main culprits in running up emerging market debt, replacing governments who have largely put their books in order. Investors'...
Read moreBrazil's federal government is currently planning port sector investments of some US$28bn, the president of national development bank BNDES, Luciano Coutinho, told BNamericas in a conference call on Thursday (Apr 25). "According...
Read moreRealizado no prestigiado Harvard Club em plena primavera em New York, o Brazil Summit reuniu no dia 22 de abril, personalidades influentes no cenário internacional. Líderes empresariais internacionais, diplomatas e academia se...
Read moreArminio Fraga, Brazil’s former central bank president, is concerned by the government’s push to foster growth by encouraging consumers to spend more on credit. The speed of loan growth in Brazil merits “some monitoring,” Fraga,...
Read moreThe Brazilian government expects local bond issues to fund 5-20% of projects costs for the BRL 145bn (USD 71.7bn) logistics concession program in coming years, said Wagner Bittencourt de Oliveira, vice president of the national...
Read moreBrazil's national ground transport agency ANTT has signed a 2.14bn-real (US$1.08bn) concession contract with a consortium led by EcoRodovias (Bovespa: ECOR3) to expand and operate federal highway BR-101 in the southeastern state...
Read moreThe Brazilian government has cut the PIS/Cofins tax levied on purchases of petrochemical raw materials from 5.6% to 1%. The national chemical industry has been requesting a tax cut to raw material prices for some time, as it is...
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