After a 2021 full of volatility and uncertainties, retail will not have an easy life in 2022. Major retailers in the country have been signaling, in conferences call on results in recent days, that the sector was already managing greater pressures on expenses, such as rents and labor, in addition to the escalation of costs […]
A new 10% cut in Mercosur’s Common External Tariff (CET) this year depends mainly on two measures being prepared by the federal government and linked to maritime transport. The Economy Ministry believes that the approval of these measures would help to reduce the cost of production in Brazil and pave the way for a further […]
Economic analysts, in general, understood that the Central Bank’s Monetary Policy Committee (Copom) signaled a rate of 12.75% per year at the end of the current interest rate tightening cycle. Yet many still see this level as the floor for the Selic, Brazil’s benchmark interest rate. Economists and traders told Valor that the end-of-cycle signal, […]