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Gasoline and airfares raise July IPCA to 0.38%

July school holidays led to a rise in airfare prices - Photo: Licia Rubinstein/IBGE News Agency In July, the Extended National Consumer Price Index (IPCA) was 0.38%, 0.17 percentage points (pp) higher than in June (0.21%). This increase in the index was driven by gasoline prices, which rose 3.15%, and...

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IBGE estimates harvest 5.2% larger in 2010

IBGE conducted, in December, the third prognosis of area and production for the 2010 harvest, in the Southeast, South and Central-West regions and in the states of Rondônia, Maranhão, Piauí and Bahia. The production of grains, legumes and oilseeds1 for 2010 is estimated in 140.7 million tons2, 5.2% larger...

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Forecast of grain production increased by 1.2% due to 2nd harvest corn and wheat

According to the Systematic Survey of Agricultural Production - LSPA , the national harvest of grains - cereals, legumes and oilseeds - was estimated in 132.3 million tons in April, a volume 1.2% higher than the one estimated in March. The gain of approximately 1.5 million tons came mainly from the crops...

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Continuous PNAD, quarterly edition: unemployment drops in 6 of 27 FUs in Q4 2018

The unemployment rate was 11.6% in Brazil, 0.3 percentage points below that of the previous quarter (11.9%). Taking into account the statistically-significant changes, the rate dropped in six out of the 27 Federation Units in relation to the third quarter of 2018. On the other hand, the rate increased...

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GDP grows by 3.7% and reaches R$ 2,3 trillion in 2006

The National Accounts of IBGE show that, according to the new methodology, there was accumulated growth of 3.7% throughout the four quarters of 2006. GDP at market prices was R$ 2,322,8 million and GDP per capita grew by 2.3% in the period, having reached the figure of R$ 12,437,00. IBGE proceeds with...

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IPCA-15 of March changed 0.40% and the IPCA-E of Q1 closes at 1.99%

The deceleration of items like school monthly tuition fees and food products were responsible for the reduction of March's rate. The Extended National Consumer Price Index-15 (IPCA-15) changed by 0.40% in March, and was bellow February's rate (0.90%). The prices were collected from February 11th until...

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Industrial production changed by -0.3% in January

In comparison with the result in December 2006, the seasonally adjusted rate interrupted a sequence of three positive results, in a period in which the accumulated growth of the industrial production was 1.8%. In relation to January 2006, the industry grew by 4.5%. The indicator accumulated in the last...

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Industrial employment remains unchanged (0.0%) in January

In January 2014, the total of salaried employed persons in the industry (0.0%) repeated the previous month´s figure, in the seasonally adjusted series, after having registered negative changes of 0.1% in November and of 0.4% in December. As a result, the quarterly moving average registered a negative...

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GDP changed by 0.3% in the first quarter of 2005 in relation to the fourth quarter of 2004

The Gross Domestic Product at market prices changed by 0.3% in the first quarter of 2005, in relation to the fourth quarter of 2004, in the series with seasonal adjustment. In the first quarter of 2005, the growth was 2.9% in relation to the same period of the previous year. The accumulated index in...

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Industrial production drops 0.7% in December and closes 2010 in 10.5%

In December 2010, industrial production contracted 0.7%, in the seasonally adjusted series... In December 2010, the industrial production contracted 0.7%, in the seasonally adjusted series, after remaining virtually stable in the last four months. Compared with the same month of 2009, there was an expansion...

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In June, IBGE estimates increase of 9% for the 2008 grain harvest

Expected harvest (145.1 million metric tons) is 9.0% above the figure in 2007 and 1.0% above the rate expected for June, keeping, this way, the estimate of a record output. The expected planted area (47.3 million hectares) is 4.3% bigger than that of last year. The seventh estimate for the national harvest...

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Driven by Food and Beverages, IPCA-15 reaches 0.36% in March

IPCA-15 decelerated in March, affected by increases in Food and Beverages - Photo: Helena Pontes/IBGE News Agency The inflation preview stood at 0.36% in March, being 0.42 percentage points (p.p) below that of February, when it changed by 0.78%. The result was mostly influenced by Food and Beverages,...

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Industrial output drops in six of the 14 places in May

The regional output indicators showed that the growth in the intensity of the falling pace, observed in the national index between the first semester of 2012 (-3.1%) and the April-May 2012 period (-3.9%) – both comparisons against the same period a year ago - was also seen in ten of the 14 places surveyed....

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IPCA-15 of June stays at 0.18% and IPCA-E at 1.12%

The National Extended Consumer Price Index - 15 (IPCA-15) changed by 0.18%, in June, quite below the rate of 0.51% of May. As result, the change of the IPCA-E (accumulated of IPCA 15) in the second quarter stayed at 1.12%, below the same quarter of 2011 (1.71%), closing the first semester of 2012 with...

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Industrial employment remains unchanged (0.0%) in February

In February 2013, the number of salaried employed persons in industry remained unchanged (0.0%) versus the figure in the immediately previous month, in the seasonally-adjusted series, after having recorded -0.3% in December and being stable last January. With these results, the quarterly moving average...

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In March, retail sales increased by 1.8% and nominal revenue by 2.3%

These results with seasonal adjustment were in relation to February 2008. In relation to March 2007, the volume of retail sales increased by 11.4%, and the nominal revenue by 16.0%. In the quarter the indicators accumulated respectively 12.0% and 16.6% ... These results with seasonal adjustment were...

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Continuous PNAD-Q: labor underutilization is 24.6% in Q2 2018

In the second quarter of 2018, the labor underutilization rate – which gathers the unemployed, time-related underemployed and the potential workforce – was 24.6%, which represents 27.6 million persons. The result was statistically stable in relation to the first quarter of 2018 (24.7%) nd increases in...

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Continuous PNAD: unemployment rate stays at 10.9% in quarter ending in March 2016  

Indicator / Period Jan - Feb - Mar2016 Oct - Nov - Dec2015 Jan - Feb - Mar2015 Unemployment rate 10.9% 9.0% 7.9% Usual real earnings R$1,966 R$1,961 R$2,031 Value of earnings in relation to: 0.3% (stable) -3.2% The unemployment rate in the moving quarter ending in March 2016 was estimated at 10.9%, 1.9...

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GDP falls 3.5% and reaches R$6 trillion

The Gross Domestic Product - GDP reached R$5.996 trillion in 2015 and its drop in volume, compared with 2014, was revised from 3.8% to 3.5%. Services fell 2.7%, the first negative figure since the beginning of the time series in 1996. Agriculture rose 3.3% and industry dropped 5.8%. The per capita GDP...

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Retail comprises 84.2% of the commercial companies in Brazil

In 2005, according to IBGE’s Annual Survey of Trade (PAC), there were 1,438 million commercial companies all over the country, with net operating revenue of R$ 940,2 billion and employing 7,074 million persons. Wholesale companies had the highest revenue (R$ 418,9 billion), but retail comprised 84.2%...