The Brazilian Health Regulatory Agency (Anvisa) approved, after a meeting on Wednesday, the emergency use of the drug molnupiravir, produced by U.S-based pharmaceutical company Merck Sharp & Dohme (MSD), effective against Covid-19. MSD told Valor that the drug showed 89% efficacy against deaths in infected patients who started treatment up to five days after the […]
The Central Bank’s Monetary Policy Committee (Copom) raised the policy interest Selic rate by 100 basis points and signaled an extension of the monetary tightening cycle for its next meeting. “For its next meeting, the Committee foresees as likely an extension of the cycle, with an adjustment of lower magnitude,” the Central Bank said in […]
Brazilian delegation has prepared proposal to extend the flexibility that may eventually be agreed upon against Covid-19 — Foto: Tânia Rêgo/Agência Brasil Brazil will propose that flexibilities for patent breaking and technology transfer for the production of anti-Covid vaccines be extended to medicines and treatments against tropical and endemic diseases, sources say. The proposal will […]
The last month with a negative balance of foreign capital at Exchange B3 was November 2021 — Foto: Divulgação Amid a more challenging global context for risk assets, with uncertainties over the growth of the world’s main economies and volatility in commodity prices, foreign investors withdrew funds from the secondary market of the local stock […]
The Amazon rainforest is in a trap: the elements that reflect the failure of its unstructured occupation are also the key to solutions for the territory. The largest region in Brazil reveals the worst social indices and the highest rates of violence at the same time as it has a demographic bonus, open land with […]
Thomas Wu — Foto: Silvia Zamboni/Valor The strategy by the Brazilian Central Bank that prioritizes keeping the Selic at a level around 13% for longer instead of raising the benchmark interest rate to even tighter levels is valid. Thomas Wu, the chief economist at Itaú Asset, believes that it is preferable that monetary policy “be […]
Less than 25% of the economic analysts consulted for the Focus survey of market expectations believe that the Central Bank’s Monetary Policy Committee (Copom) will end the monetary tightening cycle this week. This is what the map of the distribution of market expectations, released by the monetary authority, shows. Less than 25% of economic analysts […]
In addition to the expansion of telecommunications infrastructure like antennas and cables, the digitalization of society and the advent of 5G wireless technology will also require “invisible” services including network management and automation, with intensive use of artificial intelligence – the ability of machines to interpret data and learn. The demand for these products is […]
J&F Investimentos — the holding company of brothers Joesley and Wesley Batista, owners of meat processing giant JBS — has intensified talks with Novonor (formerly Odebrecht) to buy the group’s stake in petrochemical company Braskem. Valor has learned that there is no official proposal on the table, but the company has already had informal talks […]
The beginning of the week was turbulent in the global markets. Little by little, the market has been adjusting to a more challenging landscape, as the U.S. Federal Reserve is expected to speed up the tightening cycle. The looming scenario of lower liquidity helped to bring down stock markets in New York on Monday and […]