Despite the difficult phase faced by retailers of durable and semidurable goods since last year, there are signs that April and May may have been better than the first quarter, which has made asset managers and executives more hopeful about a change in the consumer environment after the second half of the year. This started […]
The proposal to privatize Petrobras, announced by Mines and Energy Minister Adolfo Sachsida, would not ensure lower fuel prices in Brazil. That’s what Marcus D’Elia, a partner at Leggio Consultoria, and José Luiz Alquéres, advisor of the Brazilian Center for International Relations (Cebri) and former CEO of Eletrobras and Light, said in Tuesday’s live-streamed interview […]
Carlos Antonio Rocca — Foto: Silvia Zamboni/Valor The surge in Brazil’s investment rate between 2016 and 2021, to 19.2% from 15.5% of the GDP, is due entirely to the increase in the private sector’s slice, whose rate rose to 17.5% from 13.6% of the GDP in the period, while public investments shrunk to 1.64% from […]