Rio Grande do Sul state counts 132 people missing after heavy rains that hit 385 of the 497 municipalities since last week 05/07/2024 Floods impacted Porto Alegre, the capital city of Rio Grande do Sul — Foto: Gustavo Mansur/Palácio Piratini The government of Rio Grande do Sul confirmed that the heavy rains that hit the […]
The tax is being created to have the same revenue as the old IPI 05/03/2024 Bernard Appy — Foto: Cristiano Mariz/Agência O Globo The revenue from the Selective Tax (IS), which will be created with the consumption tax reform, will not exceed R$50 billion per year, according to estimates made by the Ministry of Finance. […]
Study projects that, if current conditions are maintained, there will be more beneficiaries than contributors as of 2051 05/03/2024 Leonardo Rolim — Foto: Edu Andrade/Ascom/ME Brazil has fewer than two contributors for each Social Security beneficiary, a ratio expected to deteriorate in the coming decades. By 2051, there will be more insured individuals than those […]
Hydropower dam collapses; 74 people are missing in the Rio Grande do Sul state’s worst disaster ever 05/03/2024 A bridge in Santa Maria was destroyed by floodwaters; heavy rains in the Rio Grande do Sul state this week forced 10,242 to leave their homes and 4,645 to be relocated to shelters — Foto: Mauricio Tonetto/Secom […]
With restricted credit at the beginning of 2023, groups raised R$30bn from investment funds 05/02/2024 Daniel Wainstein — Foto: Gabriel Reis/Valor Companies that resorted to loans at higher rates during the credit crisis, especially from asset managers focused on stressed assets, known as “special sits,” are back at the table to refinance their debts. A […]
The 2025 Budget Guidelines Act indicates a budget of R$3.60tn, down from R$3.76tn at the end of 2022 05/02/2024 Jorge Messias — Foto: Divulgação/Daniel Estevão/AscomAGU In its first year, the Lula administration has set a downward track for the federal government’s fiscal risks within the justice system, which had been on the rise and are […]
Change comes just over two weeks after Brazil reduced the fiscal target for 2025 05/02/2024 Dario Durigan — Foto: Marcelo Camargo/Agência Brasil Moody’s raised on Wednesday (1) Brazil’s Ba2 credit rating outlook to positive, from stable, indicating an improved chance of upgrading the country’s rating in the future. The agency cited positive GDP growth prospects […]
April 2024
A survey carried out in Beijing and Shanghai shows that consumers are willing to pay 20% more for Brazilian meat that has nothing to do with the destruction of the Amazon 04/30/2024 Kevin Chen and Eduardo Assad — Foto: Rogerio Vieira/Valor At a time when China is increasing the number of Brazilian slaughterhouses authorized to […]
Market harbors doubts, however, about the retailer’s ability to emerge from reorganization 04/30/2024 Renato Franklin — Foto: Rogerio Vieira/Valor Casas Bahia’s request for extrajudicial restructuring was approved Monday night by a São Paulo court, marking an attempt by the retailer to close this chapter and convey to the market that its focus is now squarely […]