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Brasile
Preços de produtos e serviços consumidos no verão caem 1,35%
Produtos e serviços mais consumidos no verão registraram queda nos preços, segundo a FGVTomaz Silva/Agência Brasil Os preços dos produtos e serviços mais consumidos no verão caíram 1,35% entre janeiro e dezembro de 2017. No mesmo período, o Índice de Preços ao Consumidor da Fundação Getulio Vargas (IPC-FGV) subiu 3,23%. ...
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Brasile
Meirelles: rebaixamento não pode se transformar em “grande evento político”
Ministro da Fazenda, Henrique Meirelles, durante coletiva sobre o rebaixamento da nota do Brasil pela agência Standard & Poor’s Fabio Rodrigues Pozzebom/Agência Brasil O ministro da Fazenda, Henrique Meirelles, disse hoje (12) que o rebaixamento da nota do Brasil pela agência de classificação de risco Standard & Poor’s, anunciado ontem (11), ...
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Nigeria
Roadmap For Nigeria’s Economic Growth In 2018
Experts say the wellbeing or otherwise of the Nigerian economy in 2018 will be determined by the strength of its foreign reserves. They told MARK ITSIBOR that the FG must offload equity – ownership in some sectors to attract long-term foreign direct investment, going forward Reserves “The key variable the ...
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Nigeria
Abiola’s sons clash over his estate
Abdul Mumuni, the youngest son of the acclaimed winner of the June 12, 1993 presidential election, late Chief MKO Abiola, on Friday accused his elder brothers of leaving their father’s landed properties and businesses to rot away. He accused them, especially Kola, of playing god with the estate and other ...
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Nigeria
Police nab suspected rapist on top of victim
Three suspected rapists who specialized in promising their victims the sum of N30,000 after a night stand have been arrested in Edo State. One of the suspects was found naked on top of one of their victims when police broke into the apartment located at Ikpoba-Hill area The suspects identified ...
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Etiopia
Ethiopia, Tanzania Electric Trains to Speed Up Cargo Movement
[East African] Ethiopia and Tanzania have raised the stakes in the competition for cargo business in the region by introducing electric trains.
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Regno Unito
UK won’t pay to access single market post-Brexit: Gov’t
The British government on Jan. 11 ruled out paying the European Union to access the single market after leaving the bloc, as Prime Minister Theresa May tried to reassure finance sector players over Brexit.
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Cina USA
China’s global trade surplus falls, but grows with US
Chinese exports and imports picked up steam last year thanks to strong global demand, data showed on Jan. 12, but its surplus with the United States, a sensitive issue with Donald Trump, widened.
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Turchia
Agriculture minister vows Turkey will not import meat in future amid row
Turkey will in the future cease to be a meat-importing country, Food, Agriculture and Livestock Minister Ahmet Eşref Fakıbaba said on Jan. 12, amid recent controversy over Turkey’s struggling livestock sector and rising imports of meat.
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Turchia USA
Turkey issues travel warning for citizens visiting US in retaliatory move
The Turkish Foreign Ministry on Jan. 12 urged its citizens to reconsider their travel plans and take precautions against possible threats they might face in the United States.