The NBR group, led by businessman Evandro Lira, is going to build an automaker of popular and compact vehicles made of fiberglass and carbon in Araripina, Pernambuco. The initial investment — which includes the renovation of a castor oil factory deactivated in the 1990s — is R$260 million in three years, but can reach R$1 […]
ISA Cteep, a private-sector power transmission company, agreed to build the first large-scale energy storage project linked to Brazil’s National Interconnected System (SIN). The company signed a contract with a consortium that includes You.On Energia, a company specialized in energy storage systems, and TS Infraestrutura, which gathers engineering assets spun off from Toshiba. The companies […]
The 14.86% drop of the dollar against the real this year leaves no doubt that the market has been putting in prices the expressive interest differential between Brazil and the United States, which is expected to remain at high levels. Although the Federal Reserve (Fed) has started a process of monetary tightening and now indicates […]