Some one have any info about the site?
Still not working!
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Still not working!
[QUOTE=Patata Chips]Some one have any info about the site?
Still not working![/QUOTE]Checkout my post #1919 in the Sao Paulo thread. Use the search function, newbie, it's been discussed on a couple of threads.
This is funny!!!!Thanks for posting it!!!:D
[QUOTE=Chaudlefredo]Happy New Year to you all, and a link to a very sexy and funny Brazilian advertisment for cerveja antartica:
[url]http://www.tatuagemdaboa.com.br/[/url]
Wait a little bit until the lady totaly appears and then you have to fill your name, a friend's name or your nickname, don't have to give your adress, and push "visualizar". And laugh![/QUOTE]
Can anyone tell me how to get Viagra or Cialis in Rio?
Do I need prescription?
Or are there other options?
LC
[QUOTE=Louie Cifre]Can anyone tell me how to get Viagra or Cialis in Rio?
Do I need prescription?
Or are there other options?
LC[/QUOTE]Hi Louie,
Just go to a farmacy and ask for it. No problem. It also happends that they have some special offer. Ask if they have.
Chicobarca
[QUOTE=Louie Cifre]Can anyone tell me how to get Viagra or Cialis in Rio?
Do I need prescription?
Or are there other options?
LC[/QUOTE]No perscription needed. Just go to the pharmacy and tell the pharmacist what you want. You can also buy ZITHROMYCINE over the counter (Z-Pak in America). It is called Azithromycin. It's the greatest thing for unexpected sinus infections. I alwasy pick a few up in Brazil and keep them in my shaving bag for the unexpected travel related cold.
I finally took a few minutes and figured out how to use a proxy server to get to gpguia.net fro America. As many of you know the site has been bloakc from access by servers based in America. If anyone needs help getting this done just send me a PM and I'll be happy to share my experience and get you set up.
GP Guia site seems now accessible from outside of Brazil, at least from some areas.
It is a few days I am accessing it from different countries.
[QUOTE=Patata Chips]Some one have any info about the site?
Still not working![/QUOTE]
[QUOTE=Jake993]I finally took a few minutes and figured out how to use a proxy server to get to gpguia.net fro America. As many of you know the site has been bloakc from access by servers based in America. If anyone needs help getting this done just send me a PM and I'll be happy to share my experience and get you set up.[/QUOTE]
Does not seem to work from Europe either...
Written by Mylena Fiori
Wednesday, 14 January 2009
According to a survey by the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), Brazil is the country that suffered the least with the world economic crisis. According to the document, the Brazilian economy saw a reduction of only 2.9 points and its activity was rated as being "in decline."
The survey, based on figures pertaining to November last year, points to a "sharp slowdown" in the European Union, Asia, the United States and large emerging economies. The survey includes the 30 OECD member countries and five other important economies that are not part of the group, among them the so-called BRIC countries - Brazil, Russia, India and China.
The OECD index, which consists of an average of different economic indicators, revolves around 100. The OECD rates as expanding economies those that have rising indexes and above 100.
Economies with indexes above 100, but showing a trend of decreasing activity, are considered to be in decline. Countries with indicators below 100, but rising, are rated as in recovery. In turn, those with indexes below 100 and retracting economies are defined as in slowdown.
Brazil is the only country that maintained a rating above 100 throughout the second half of 2008. In November, the OECD index stood at 101.2 points, as against 102.3 in October, 103.2 in September, 103.9 in August and 104.1 in July.
Russia was the worst performing country in November. At 89.8 points, its index was slightly higher than China's, but represents a decrease of 13.8 points in comparison with the same period of last year.
As was the case in nearly every country, the slowdown has intensified since July. In China, the index was 88.5 - 12.9 points below the average of economic indicators as of November 2007. In India, the slowdown in November stood at 7.6 points compared with the same period of the previous year.
All of the large world economies also recorded "sharp slowdown" rates, with indexes below 100 since July.
The world's largest economy, the United States recorded an index of 92.2 points in November, representing reduction of 8.7 points compared with November 2007.
In Japan, which has the world's second highest Gross Domestic Product (GDP), the decrease was of 5.5 points in comparison with the same period of the previous year, and the index in November was 93.7 points. In Germany, the third in the global ranking, the OECD index stood at 91.6 points - a decrease of 10.7 points.
The outlook was not too good in the Eurozone countries. The reduction compared with November 2007 stood at 7.6 points, with an index of 94.3 points. Considering the five leading Asian economies (China, India, Japan, Indonesia and Korea), economic activity decreased by 9.5 points, earning an index of 91.6 points.
In turn, the OECD member countries recorded a slowdown of 7.3 points in comparison with November 2007, having recorded a combined index of 93.8 points.
Export Record
The Brazilian state-controlled oil and gas multinational Petrobras attained record high exports of oil produced in Brazil in December. Sales during the month totaled 19.2 million barrels of oil, i.e., an average of 620,000 barrels a day, 46,000 more than the previous record high, of 574,000 barrels a day, attained in October 2008.
According to the company, 63% of exports were destined to the United States. Another 21.4% went to Europe, 5.4% to South America, 5% to Asia and 5% to the Caribbean.
Exports in December generated revenues of US$ 574 million, to be collected in January and February this year.
[QUOTE=Madd Love]Written by Mylena Fiori
Wednesday, 14 January 2009
According to a survey by the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), Brazil is the country that suffered the least with the world economic crisis.[/QUOTE]
Over the last two years many people have asked me why I decided to invest in Brazil of all places. One reason is that Brazil does not have ready (or affordable) credit for houses, apartments, cars or credit cards.
With the current (not that current - December 07) economic crisis it is as if there were many earthquakes around the world of various magnitudes but none in Brazil. Brazil will have some damage as the quakes spread out from the epicenters but nothing direct.
Where Brazil will suffer is in exports (other than oil) which is why I said from a macroeconomic perspective the dollar had to rise making Brazil's goods cheaper in the US.
The one thing that Brazil must get a handle on and soon is domestic inflation. Prices here make no sense whatsoever. The price for the same item varies radically from store to store and even radically at the same store from week to week. If inflation is not gotten under control, pretty soon the guy on the street is going to get squeezed more than they are already.
This is compounded by current labor laws which provide a monthly not hourly minimum wage. My understanding is that an employer can hire someone part-time but must pay them full-time based upon the monthly minimum wage.
Another observation about Rio in particular is that I estimate about 10% of the working age male population is somehow employed in security whether police or private. The Suco stands even have security.
Brazil will be affected and in my opinion extremely hard for all of the reasons exec listed below. IE Inefficient economy, high inflation, nothing makes senses here as far as business logic goes etc. I think the cycle was the US was affected first, then Europe and then the emerging markets. I am thinking the emerging markets are going to get hit really hard, it is just that they are last into the cycle.
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Brazilian Stocks Decline on Record Job Losses; Bolsa Advances
By Paulo Winterstein and William Freebairn
Jan. 19 (Bloomberg) -- Brazilian stocks fell for the first time in three days after a government report showed the biggest monthly job losses on record, signaling the slowdown in Latin America’s largest economy is worsening.
Lojas Renner SA, Brazil’s biggest clothing retailer, slid more than 5 percent after the economy lost 654,946 government- registered jobs in December. Vivo Participacoes SA, the largest mobile-phone company, fell the most in the Bovespa after JPMorgan Chase & Co. said margins may be hurt by the slowdown. Banco do Brasil SA paced gains for banks after Merrill Lynch & Co. upgraded the stock to “buy.”
“We’re focusing on macro numbers, which should continue to be bad,” said Jose Alberto Baltieri, who helps manage about $238 million in assets at BES Ativos Financeiros in Sao Paulo. Earnings reports for “the fourth quarter should be an inflection point as analysts adjust their earnings projections for this year, which will be a little more negative.”
The Bovespa dropped 1.3 percent to 38,828.32, paring its gain this year to 3.4 percent. Chile’s Ipsa advanced 0.1 percent, while Mexico’s Bolsa rose 0.3 percent. The MSCI Emerging Markets index declined 0.7 percent. U.S. markets were shut today for the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday.
The December employment report became the latest government data to shed light on the depth of the slowdown. The Labor Ministry reported that Brazil lost the most government- registered jobs since the series began in 1999.
Rate Cut Outlook
Brazil’s local-currency bond yields slid to their lowest in 15 months and the real slipped on growing expectations the central bank may cut its benchmark lending rate by as much as a full percentage point this week as the economic slowdown worsens. A majority of economists expects the central bank to cut rates to 13 percent this week from a two-year high of 13.75 percent.
A 75-basis-point cut in the Selic won’t cause equities to rebound as investors still see a “very difficult” first half, said Sergio Goldman, head of research at BullTick Capital Markets.
Investors “need to see some degree of stability in global markets as well as a clearer picture on the actual degree of activity deceleration Brazil’s economy will experiment” before they return to Brazilian equities, Goldman wrote. “Our sentiment is that these two conditions will not be in place before the middle of” the second quarter of this year, when gross domestic product growth in the first quarter is released, he wrote.
Economic expansion will slow by more than half to 2 percent this year, according to a median forecast in a central bank survey published today.
Global Slowdown
The euro-area economy will shrink 1.9 percent this year, the first time since the currency was introduced a decade ago, the European Commission said. The European Central Bank last month predicted a 0.5 percent contraction for 2009.
Renner slid 5.8 percent to 16.80 reais.
Metalurgica Gerdau SA, which makes long steel for the construction industry, fell 1.6 percent to 22.50 reais. Operating unit Gerdau SA slid 1.6 percent to 16.80 reais.
Brazilian steelmakers probably won’t benefit from a pickup in steel distributors’ sales until the second quarter because of high stockpiles, Ativa Corretora said today in a note.
Telephone Companies
Vivo led declines in phone companies, slumping 6.1 percent to 31.65 reais.
“We maintain our cautious view on Brazilian mobile, despite strong subscriber growth prospects,” JPMorgan analysts led by Andre Baggio wrote in a note to clients. “The economic slowdown in 2009, coupled with higher foreign exchange, should hit mobile margins and growth.”
Telemar Norte Leste SA, which began offering mobile service in Sao Paulo state last year, declined 2.5 percent to 45.91 reais. Tim Participacoes SA, the third-biggest carrier, dropped 3.2 percent to 3.01 reais.
Banco do Brasil gained 0.3 percent to 14.44 reais. Merrill said the risk of more acquisitions ebbed after the bank bought regional lender Banco Nossa Caixa SA and acquired a 50 percent stake in Banco Votorantim SA, while concerns on possible political interference have also been reduced. Banco Itau Holding Financeira SA, which surpassed Banco do Brasil as Latin America’s biggest bank after agreeing to buy Uniao de Bancos Brasileiros SA, rose 1.5 percent to 24.30 reais. Unibanco rose 0.8 percent.
Mexican stocks advanced, led by retailers and construction companies, on bets a government spending plan may boost the economy.
Empresas Gains
Empresas ICA SAB, Mexico’s largest construction company, gained for a fifth day, advancing 0.7 percent to 24.22 pesos.
“It’s one of the few vehicles to bet on a sector that may be a winner this year,” said Carlos A. Gonzalez, analyst at IXE Grupo Financiero in Mexico City.
Mexican President Felipe Calderon announced plans on Jan. 7 for a record 570 billion pesos of public and private investment in construction this year.
Controladora Comercial Mexicana SAB, the third-largest Mexican supermarket chain, advanced 2.9 percent to 3.22 pesos after Excelsior newspaper reported it may announce a deal today with banks giving it more time to pay its debts.
Grupo Famsa SAB, a retailer with stores in the U.S. and Mexico, rose 4.6 percent to 8.02 pesos.
In other Latin America markets, Argentina’s Merval and Peru’s Lima General indexes gained 1 percent each and Colombia’s IGBC climbed 0.7 percent.
To contact the reporter on this story: Paulo Winterstein in Sao Paulo at [email]pwinterstein@bloomberg.net[/email].
Last Updated: January 19, 2009 17:02 EST
[QUOTE=Exec Talent]
Another observation about Rio in particular is that I estimate about 10% of the working age male population is somehow employed in security whether police or private. The Suco stands even have security.[/QUOTE]
This is so sad, sad, sad. Even that I love Brazil, and have alot of Brazilian friends, I just can't shake of the feeling that the country is going in the wrong direction.
Bubba's report below is also a sign that more violence and crimes will occur, as people and families can't survive on thin air and tapwater.
I was thinking about relocating to Brazil a couple of years ago, but changed my mind, partly because crime and inflation.
Laiter (until recently) thinking about Panama city as a good place to live - However, a crimewave is flooding Panama and everyday streetcrime is up on a level unseen before in the "safe haven Panama", heck even Costa Rica - "The perfect paradise for retirement" is affected by crimes in a scale not seen before.
So where does this leave us? I'm not sure, Guess nowbody knows. The only thing that's sure is that it's uncertain times.
Probably will return to Asia during last quarter of 2009, waiting to find out what ways the winds are blowing.
Just my 5 cents, Ken Apples
Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, the president of Brazil, says that he would like to talk with the new American president, Barack Obama, before the "government machine" gets hold of him. Lula also expects that the US leader "would change his vision on Latinamerica and acknowledge the advance of regional democracy."
Lula da Silva made the statements during a meeting with his counterpart Hugo Chavez in the Venezuelan province of Zulia where he signed trade agreements and anticipated the Brazilian Senate would soon approve the incorporation of Venezuela to Mercosur.
"I haven't had a chance to talk with Obama and undoubtedly we must have a discussion before the government machine gets hold of him," said Lula. And looking to President Chavez he added "and you know Hugo that these machines are very powerful and if we don't fight against them they devour us in a short time and then we don't do what we should have done."
"These machines are capable of making us into something different to that what we were thinking about when we took office," underlined the Brazilian leader.
"Let's hope Obama is enlightened by God and gives him the sufficient intelligence and sensitivity to realize he must solve this crisis as soon as possible, that he can't let countries of Latinamerica and the Caribbean which depend exclusively on exports to the US, to suffer because of the crisis."
Lula also urged that the developed world "finds a quick solution before the crisis could again plunge the developing world into stagnation as happened in the eighties and nineties with the foreign debt crisis".
The Brazilian president further on anticipated that the Senate of his country would be approving at the latest in March, Venezuela's incorporation as full member of Mercosur.
"This is the will of Mercosur and Venezuela", he underlined.
"Many times we celebrate international agreements and the legislative process takes longer than we would like," he admitted.
President Chavez said the announcement was "wonderful news and so will be the results." He pointed out that with Venezuela inside Mercosur, bilateral trade with Brazil would certainly increase from its current US$ 6 billion annually.
Mercosur in 2006 was accepted as Mercosur member, but ratification from the Brazilian and Paraguayan congresses is pending. Uruguay and Argentina
Quick question guys:
My Canadian passport expires in April and my 5 year Brasil visa is good until August 2010. For my trip next month, Will I have to apply for a new Brasil visa or can I bring the old passport with the visa along the new passport?
Thanks.