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Industrial output advances 0.6% in July, still below the pre-pandemic level

Food industry advanced 4.3% and exerted the greatest positive influence on the July´s index - Photo: José Fernando Ogura/AEN-PR The industrial production registered a positive change of 0.6% between June and July, growing once again after a drop of 0.3% in the previous month. With these results, this...

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Retail sales grow 1.1% in February, second increase in a row

Fuels and lubricants increased 5.3% in February - Photo: Licia Rubinstein/IBGE News Agency The volume of retail sales in the country grew 1.1% in February, compared to the previous month (2.1%), the second consecutive increase. As a result, the sector is 1.2% above the pre-pandemic level, and 4.9% below...

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Inflation preview in May decelerates to 0.59% influenced by drop in electricity

Drop in prices of electricity helped to decelerate inflation preview in May - Photo: Helena Pontes The inflation preview decelerated to 0.59% in May and stood 1.14 percentage points (p.p.) below the April´s rate (1.73%). This index is the highest one for this indicator for May since 2016 (0.86%). In...

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Services sector decreases by 4% in March and is once again below pre-pandemic figures

Services rendered to families fell 27% in March - Photo: Helena Pontes/IBGE News Agency The sector of services recorded a 4% decrease from February to March, being once again below the pre-pandemic level (February 2020). The result eliminates most of the increase in the previous year, 4.6%, when the...

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Services shrink 1.2% in October and record two months in a row of negative rates

In October, the telecommunications segment exerted the main negative impact on the fall in the services sector - Photo: Pixabay The services sector retreated 1.2% from September to October, the second consecutive negative rate, accumulating a decrease of 1.9%. With the result of October, the sector was...

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Construction costs grow 0.88% in September, lowest rate in 2021

The segment of steel still records increase in September, but with the lowest impact on the indicator - Photo: Helena Pontes/IBGE News Agency The National Index of Civil Construction (Sinapi), released today (October 8) by the IBGE, rose 0.88% in September, 0.11 percentage points (pp) below that of August...

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July estimate points to record crop of 263.4 million metric tons in 2022

July estimate points to a record crop of 263.4 million metric tons in 2022 - Photo: Luiz Henrique Magnante/Embrapa The Brazilian harvest of cereals, legumes and oilseeds should reach a record 263.4 million metric tons, according to the July estimate of the Systematic Survey of Agricultural Production...

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Construction costs grow 1.78% in May

Materials that have steel as raw material continue to exert strong influence on the construction index - Photo: Helena Pontes/Agência IBGE Notícias The National Civil Construction Index (Sinapi), released today (May 9) by the IBGE, rose 1.78% in May, a slight deceleration of 0.09 percentage points compared...

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Unemployment drops to 11.2% in quarter ending in January, lowest rate for the period since 2016

Performance of trade influenced drop in unemployment in January - Photo: Tomaz Silva/Agência Brasil The unemployment rate drooped to 11.2% in the quarter ended in January, a retreat of 0.9 percentage points compared with the previous quarter, ended in October. This is the lowest rate for the period since...

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Inflation hits 1.01%, highest figure in February since 2015

IPCA of February encompasses price adjustments usually established in the beginning of the school year - Photo: Lucas Fermin/SEED/AEN-PR Inflation rose 1.01% in February 2022, having recorded the biggest change for a month of February since 2015 (1.22%). The index was of 0.47 percentage points above...

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Retail up again after increase of 0.8% in sales in January

Pharmaceuticals, medical and orthopedic articles and toiletries contributed to the 0.8% increase of retail sales - Photo: Helena Pontes/IBGE News Agency Volume of sales of retail trade in the coiuntry increased by 0.8% in January against the previous month. Despite this increase, more than half of the...

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Inflation preview stays at 1.17%, highest index in November since 2002

Gasoline accounted for the main individual impact on the November index, with a cumulative increase of 44.83% in the year - Photo: Licia Rubinstein/IBGE News Agency The inflation preview is up 1.17%, biggest change in November since 2002, when the index reached 2.08%. The cumulative change in the year...

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Unemployment rate drops to 9.3% in Q2

Increasing 3.1% in the quarter, number of employed persons is the highest since 2012 - Photo: Helena Pontes The unemployment rate stood at 9.3% in the quarter ended in June, down 1.8 percentage points from the previous quarter. It is the lowest level for the period since 2015, when it had reached 8.4%....

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Industrial output drops in eight of 15 places surveyed in November

Sector of petroleum products leverages drop in Rio de Janeiro industry - Photo: Cesar Duarte - Petrobras Agency The industrial output dropped in eight out of 15 places surveyed by the Monthly Survey of Industry (Regional PIM) between October and November, when the national index changed -0.2%. The major...

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In the middle of the pandemic, number of divorces drops 13,6% in 2020

With the drop registered in 2020, number of divorces was the lowest one since 2015 - Photo: Freepick Compared with the previous year, the number of divorces granted in Brazil fell 13.6% in 2020. In 2019, the drop had been of 0.5%, interrupting three consecutive years of growth. With the retraction, 331.2...

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After two years of drops, cattle slaughter grows once again in Q1 2022

With 6.96 million head, cattle slaughter grows 5.5% in Q1 2022 - Photo: Licia Rubinstein/IBGE News Agency Cattle slaughter reached 6.96 million head and grew once again in the first quarter of 2022, after two years of drops compared with the same period a year ago. That amount represents an increase...

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Inflation rises 0.54% in January, the highest for the month since 2016

Rise in food, like in meat, impacted the month´s index - Photo: Helena Pontes/IBGE News Agency After staying at 0.73% in December, the inflation decelerated to 0.54% in January. This was the highest figure for January since 2016 (1.27%). Over the last 12 months, the indicator accumulates a rise of 10.38%,...

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After rising for two months, services sector changes -0.1% in January

Services sector decreases in January pressed by segment of information technology - Photo: Licia Rubinstein/IBGE News Agency After accumulating a gain of 4.7% in the last two months last year, the services sector changed -0.1% between December and January. With the January´s result, the sector stood...

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Retail sales change by -0.1% in October

Sales of Fuels and lubricants changed by -0.3% in October - Photo: Licia Rubinstein/IBGE News Agency After two consecutive months of decrease, retail trade sales remained stable (-0.1%) from September to October. With this result, retail was 6.4% below the record level of November 2020. Both in the year...

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Construction costs speed up to 1.87% in April

Steel drives high in prices of civil construction materials - Photo: Helena Pontes/IBGE News Agency The National Index of Civil Construction (Sinapi), released today (May 11) by the IBGE, rose 1.87% in April compared to March - the third highest rate in the series since the exemption from payroll in...