With US$ 1.2 bi, industry leads BNDES outlays in January
Valor Econômico - 02/28/2008
With a budget of R$ 80 billion (US$ 45.5 billion) approved for this year, the performance of the BNDES in January points to a generalized growth in disbursements for the period, with releases amounting to R$ 4.4 billion (US$ 2.5 billion). This value matches the total amount released in the same month of 2007. In 12 months, the releases from the BNDES amounted to R$ 64.6 billion (US$ 36.7 billion) until January. In January, the industry received the biggest part of the outlays, R$ 2.1 billion (US$ 1.2 billion). The infrastructure segment received R$ 1.3 billion (US$ 738.64 million), commerce and services R$ 509 million (US$ 289.2 million), and agriculture R$ 432 million (US$ 245.5 million). In longest term statistics, the leadership was held by infrastructure, which took R$ 25.8 billion (US$ 14.7 billion) of the resources, with distinction to projects of electric energy and to the segment of road and railroad transportation, with works on highways and railroads. For Ana Cláudia Além, adviser of the presidency of the bank, this data is a good sign for the behavior of the investment and the Gross Domestic Product (GDP). According to her analysis, the 12-month indexes inform the trend of predominance of infrastructure projects in the portfolio of the bank this year. The Brazilian economy has not given signals to cooling down so far, evaluates Ana Claudia, who considers it is too early to make market projections in such an economy that intends to grow less this year. "So far, the economic indexes of the country have not given signals the economy is going to slow down. Another important number to measure the heating of the demand for projects is the index that measure consultations of the companies willing to take loans from the bank. In the first 31 days of 2008, they amounted to R$ 13.6 billion (US$ 7.73 billion), indicating the investment intention of the company continues strong. "I believe the bank will not face difficulties to close its R$ 80 billion (US$ 45.5 billion) budget", foresees Ana Claudia.