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Austin, TX (ZPRYME NEWS) – 08/21/08 – The retail markets and the consumer markets in Brazil seem to be more at ease than the rest of the countries which are bothered by inflation. According to Reuters on UPDATE 3 – Brazil inflation eases unexpectedly in June, there was an unexpected slowdown in the increases in prices of consumer products in Brazil.

Austin, TX (ZPRYME NEWS) – 06/03/08 –2008 shocked the US economy and the rest of the world as the inevitable recession was realized early in January of this year, The New York Times reports “Fears that the United States is in a recession reverberated around the world on Monday, sending stock markets from Bombay to Frankfurt into a tailspin and puncturing the hopes of many investors that Europe and Asia will be able to sidestep an American downturn.”

Austin, TX (ZPRYME NEWS) – 05/14/08 - The leading petroleum company in Brazil is the Brazilian Petroleum Corporation or Petrobras for short. Petrobras was created in 1953, during the term of Brazilian President Getulio Vargas. Today, the company owns several oil refineries and oil tankers. The company continues to innovate new ways of deepwater and ultra-deep water oil production. According to Financial Times, “ In more than 2,000 metres of water off the coast of Brazil, Petrobras, the Brazilian national oil company, is drilling what could become one of most important oil wells of recent years.”

Austin, TX (ZPRYME NEWS) – 05/01/08 - The political climate of Brazil is one of the most complex politics which exposed Brazil to almost all possible kinds of electoral system. The transformation in the political climate of Brazil from a monarchic state to a democratic state was not an easy one. According to Country Studies on its study “Brazil - Government and Politics,” when Brazil gained its independence in 1822, it adopted a constitutional monarchy government. Brazil however retained a plantation economic system that is based on slavery and a limited political system. When Dom Pedro II was crowned as emperor sometime in 1840, the politics of Brazil evolved into a British model bi-party system in a centralized unitary system.

Austin, TX (ZprymeNews) April 28, 2008 -- Relative to other economies growing out of their former 3rd world selves, industriesThere are not enough acquisitions made by Brazil-based companies than that of Brazil companies acquired by other companies. The reason for this is due to the privatization program of Brazil. According to the Inter-American Development Bank and the Latin American Research Network Research Network Working Paper #R-455 on “Costs and Benefits of Privatization: Evidence from Brazil”, the privatization program of Brazil is a major international standard undertaking. The program started in 1991, where in 2001 the government of Brazil transferred the control of its 119 firms and minority shares in companies in Brazil to the private sectors.