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Brasile Cina
Agência Fitch prevê recessão menor no Brasil em 2016
A estabilização dos preços das commodities (bens primários com cotação internacional) melhorará a economia dos países emergentes, com diminuição da recessão em países como o Brasil e a Rússia. A conclusão é da agência de classificação de risco Fitch, que divulgou hoje (27) relatório Cenário Econômico Global, com perspectivas para ...
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Brasile
Caged mostra que Brasil perdeu 91 mil postos formais de trabalho em junho
O setor de serviços, incluindo os bancos, registrou a maior queda de vagas formais em junho deste anoAgencia Brasil/arquivo Em junho, 91.032 vagas de empregos formais foram fechadas no país, segundo dados do Cadastro Geral de Empregados e Desempregados (Caged) divulgados hoje (27) pelo Ministério do Trabalho. O resultado ...
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Nigeria
Forcados shutdown: Nigeria loses N356.6bn in five months
’Femi Asu Five months after it was attacked and shut down, Shell’s Forcados export line remains offline, causing the country a loss of about $1.6bn (N356.6bn) in revenue. It is still uncertain when the pipeline would come back on stream, although the Minister of State for Petroleum Resources, Dr. Ibe ...
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USA Nigeria
Lagos, Niger strategise on food security, employment
Sesan Olufowobi The Lagos State Government says discussion about the development of agricultural commodity value chain with Niger State aimed at ensuring food security and job creation for the two states and the country has started. The government on Wednesday added that the Lagos-Niger partnership, the second of its kind ...
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Nigeria
CBN’s rate hike more bitter than sweet, say analysts
The increase in benchmark interest rate by 200 basis points by the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) on Tuesday would further burden the real sector and could worsen the volatility at the equities market. But the increase appeared targeted as support for the tottering foreign exchange management to woo foreign ...
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Nigeria
Naira Hits New Low Of N334/$ Despite Rate Hike
One day after the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) hiked benchmark interest rates to attract foreign portfolio investments, the value of the naira dipped to a new low of N334 to the dollar as demand for foreign currency soared. The Monetary Policy Committee of the CBN had decided against holding ...
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Nigeria
FICAN Trains Journalists On Financial Markets, Instruments
As part of efforts to enhance capacity of reporting the new foreign exchange structure, the Finance Correspondents Association of Nigeria (FICAN) is organizing series of training sessions for its members. The first edition of the series on the foreign exchange market is expected to hold this Saturday, July 30th, with ...
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Thailandia
SET up 1.74 points at opening
Thai stocks opened up 0.11% at the start of trade this morning.
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USA
Véhicules: Chute de plus de 67% des importations au 1er semestre 2016
La facture d'importation des véhicules a reculé à 691 millions de dollars (usd) durant le 1er semestre 2016 contre 2,13 milliards usd durant la même période de 2015, soit une baisse de l'ordre de 1,44 milliard usd (-67,53%), a appris dimanche l'APS auprès des Douanes. Quant aux quantités importées, elles ...
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Turchia
Kosovo foreign minister says Turkey's request to punish journalist ‘unacceptable’
Kosovo's foreign minister on July 27 said a request by Turkey for Pristina to punish a journalist for tongue-in-cheek Facebook comments on Turkey's failed military coup was unacceptable and an overreaction