BRAZIL · FUEL PRICES

Key Facts

—The announcement At about 21:35 on Tuesday, Petrobras said its gasoline A price to distributors would rise by a combined R$0.63 a litre from 10 September.

—What was in it R$0.19 of genuine cost increase, plus the expiry of a R$0.44 subsidy that had applied since May under MP 1.358.

—The correction At 00:48 on Thursday the company corrected the figure. With the government’s simultaneous tax cut applied, the price to distributors is R$3.05, down R$0.19.