"Fortunately, both poverty and extreme poverty have shown a significant decrease in Brazil. According to data from the National Household Sample Survey (Pesquisa Nacional por Amostra de Domicílios - PNAD), poverty dropped over 20 per cent between 2004 and 2013, to about 9 per cent of the...

This article aims to evaluate the capability of accounting-financial indicators to explain short run oscillations in the Brazilian common stock prices. This is an event study in which the date of disclosure of accounting information is used as reference. The approach is quantitative and uses...