Brazil: Trade grows 1.8% from March to April
The volume of Brazilian retail trade increased by 1.8% from March to April this year. The growth came after a 1.1% drop...
Brazil should receive more than US$50 billion in investments following Brasil...
The Brasil Investment Forum (BIF) 2021, organized by Apex-Brasil, the IDB and the Federal Government, brought together government and multinational representatives in...
Brazil: Financial market raises GDP growth forecast to 4.36%
Financial institutions consulted by the Central Bank (BC) increased their projection for the expansion of the Brazilian economy for the seventh consecutive...
Netherlands: Retail turnover almost 10 percent up in April
Statistics Netherlands (CBS) reports for April 2021 that the Dutch retail sector recorded 9.6 percent year-on-year turnover growth. The volume of sales...
The Netherlands: The New Fintech Capital of Europe?
As cities clamor to become the EU’s financial hub post-Brexit, Amsterdam is proving an early winner
In a post-Brexit...
Brazil: Legal framework for startups is sanctioned and takes effect
On Tuesday (1), President Jair Bolsonaro sanctioned the complementary bill establishing the Legal Framework for Startups and Innovative Entrepreneurship. The measure aims...
Netherlands: Producer confidence at highest level in three years
In May 2021, the mood among Dutch manufacturers has improved again. Producer confidence stands at 8.8 this month, up from 6.5 in...
Netherlands: Economic contraction 0.5 percent in Q1 2021
According to the first estimate conducted by Statistics Netherlands (CBS), in Q1 2021 gross domestic product (GDP) contracted by 0.5 percent relative...
Netherlands: More optimism among entrepreneurs, but not in all sectors
At the beginning of Q2 2021, business owners were cautiously positive for the first time since the onset of the coronavirus crisis,...
Registrations for the largest investment attraction event in Latin America are...
The Brazilian Export and Investment Promotion Agency (Apex-Brasil) is organizing, in partnership with the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) and the Federal Government,...






















