Foreign investment in Brazil to fall in 2009-gov't

Thu Dec 18, 2008 11:42am EST
SAO PAULO, Dec 18 (Reuters) - A global financial crisis will reduce the amount of foreign direct investment that comes into Brazil in 2009, the Brazilian government's chief of staff Dilma Rousseff said in a speech on Thursday.
"There will be a reduction in foreign direct investment (FDI) but it will not be as dramatic as we saw in the past," Rousseff said at an event in Sao Paulo.
(Reporting by Renato Andrade; Writing by Ana Nicolaci da Costa, Editing by Chizu Nomiyama)