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Brasile
Brazil services growth level off in December, PMI shows
RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - Brazil's services sector ended 2021 with growth stabilizing amid a weaker pace of new orders expansion in December from the previous month, according to the Purchasing Managers' Index (PMI) survey released Wednesday. IHS Markit reported that its Brazilian services PMI stood at 53.6 in December, ...
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Brasile
Brazil hits record soybean exports in 2021; corn falls to lowest level since 2012
RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - Brazil ended 2021 with shipments of 86.63 million tons of soybeans, compared to 82.3 million the previous year, a new record for the country, while foreign sales of corn plummeted, the National Association of Cereal Exporters (Anec) said on Tuesday. The data showed that the ...
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Brasile Bolivia Montenegro
Bolivia creates 1.1 million jobs in 2021
RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - The Bolivian Minister of Economy, Marcelo Montenegro, informed this Tuesday that around 1.1 million nationals joined labor centers during 2021, which constituted another indicator of the economic growth in that country. In this sense, the head of the economic portfolio specified that the number of ...
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Brasile Argentina Regno Unito
Growing tension between Argentina and the United Kingdom over the Falkland Islands
RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - The Argentine Foreign Ministry confirmed on Wednesday that the Government of Alberto Fernandez will reiterate its claim to the United Kingdom, in case the integrity of declassified files on the sending of ships with 31 nuclear weapons to the Malvinas Islands during the 1982 war ...
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Oman USA Kenya
Livestock export to Gulf States resumes after 16-year ban
On Monday, the first shipment of 11,449 mixed-breed goats and sheep worth Sh226 million left Mombasa for the Port of Salalah in Oman.
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Taiwan
Taipei Fubon Bank partners with Avaloq to scale its private banking business
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Nigeria
Retired Soldiers Besiege Finance Ministry, Demand Pension Arrears Payment
Some retired military personnel, on Wednesday, stormed the headquarters of the Federal Ministry of Finance in Abuja to demand the immediate payment of their pension arrears. The retirees under the aegis of Coalition for Concerned Veterans accused the federal government of owing them 24-month arrears of the approved minimum wage ...
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Nigeria
Federal Govt To Begin Repayment Of IMF Loan In June
The federal government has said it will commence the repayment of $3.4bn Rapid Credit Facility to the International Monetary Fund (IMF) from June this year. The loan facility has a quarterly repayment plan. Minister of Finance, Budget and National Planning, Mrs Zainab Ahmed, disclosed this during an interview with reporters ...
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USA
Gombe State And Governor Yahaya’s Rapid Fire Approach To Governance
Gombe State has never had it so good since its fortuitous creation 25 years ago. The main distinction between the Inuwa Yahaya dispensation and other past administrations in Gombe as well as other states of the federation is its intuitive and perceptive modus operandi which connects several sectors of the ...
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Brasile
Sancionada lei que altera o Plano de Auxílio e RRF de estados e DF
O presidente Jair Bolsonaro sancionou a Lei Complementar 123/2021 que traz mudanças no Plano de Auxílio aos Estados e ao Distrito Federal e no Regime de Recuperação Fiscal (RRF) desses entes federativos, que permitiu o parcelamento de dívidas dos entes com a União. A legislação, publicada hoje (5) no Diário Oficial ...