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...The company also receives a US R&D tax credit. Across the US, the effective tax rate paid by large profitable companies is far lower than the statutory rate....
...“They are becoming one of the main ones,” said Arthur Bernardo Neto, business development director at Ibope Repucom....
...Both will involve innovations, technology and R&D investments....
...Google opened its first R&D centre in Latin America in Belo 10 years ago, after buying Akwan, a mining software company with a brilliant search algorithm....
...The five big construction companies involved in the scandal also allegedly paid R$20.7m to the Lula Institute, the ex-president’s think-tank, and R$10m to his company, LILS Palestras, which managed his payments...
...The fine was then raised to R$1m, still to no avail, the court said....
...Clashes erupted between sympathisers of the charismatic former president and his ruling Workers’ party, or PT, and opposition supporters as armed police guarded Mr Lula da Silva’s apartment block in São Bernardo...
...Last month, the company reported R$6bn ($2bn) in losses directly related to corruption....
...Brazil’s communications minister Paulo Bernardo said this month that more competition in the market would benefit consumers....
...Inhotim, created by the mining magnate Bernardo Paz, is what I can only describe as a wonder of the world....
...In her comments, Ms Graças Foster said Petrobras was investing R$3.9bn in security this year alone with 3000 employees engaged in the area....
...GIRLS I like to be in America OK by me in America Everything free in America BERNARDO For a small fee in America ANITA Buying on credit is so nice BERNARDO One look at us and they charge twice...
...But of the R$388bn of PAC II already invested, most have gone into housing and energy, with just R$32.9bn spent on transport....
...deficit in [logistics] infrastructure,” said Bernardo Figueiredo, president of the federal government’s Logistics and Planning Company....
...Although Anatel lifted last month’s sales bans on the operators last Thursday after Tim, Oi and Claro promised to invest R$20bn ($9.8bn) over the next two years, state authorities have also stepped in to...
...In May Paulo Bernardo, Brazil’s communications minister, stepped in, telling companies in the industry to increase annual investments to more than R$24bn ($11.8bn) from R$17bn previously to help improve...
...General Mills’ R$1.75bn ($857m) purchase of Brazilian food company Yoki on Thursday is a model example....
...He did not disclose the value of the expected tax breaks but Reuters reported that these would amount to about R$6bn over five years....
...ICE, a US futures exchange operator, has agreed to buy a 12.4 per cent stake in Cetip, the clearing group, at R$25.50 a share or about $512m....
...Average daily equity trading volumes have declined, dropping from last year’s R$6.48bn to R$6.07bn in May and R$5.91bn in June....
...This week, Paulo Bernardo, the communications minister, said Brazil’s government could spend up to R$1bn (US$640m) a year until 2014 to improve internet services, making the country an attractive destination...
...Bernardo Mariano, analyst at Equity Research Desk, a firm specialising in exchanges, said he expected profit growth in the fourth quarter to drop to 7 per cent, but average 15 per cent for 2011....
...Nevertheless, the internal art market in Brazil remains modest, and one report “guestimates” it at R$200m (about £75m) a year....
...“The financial crisis didn’t affect us much,” says Mr Bernardo. “And Brazilians really like precious stones. And Spanish, Italian – all Latin women really.” Pieces sell from R$350,000....
...Bernardo Mariano of Research Equity Desk, a New York research firm specialising in exchanges, says interest in Brazil will keep growing....
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