Brasília – The estimate of Brazilian financial market analysts polled by the Central Bank regarding the growth of the economy this year has dropped from 3.3% to 3.27%. The forecast for 2013 is 4.2%, according to the Focus survey issued this Monday (16th).
The industrial production growth estimate has been adjusted from 3.43% to 3.31%, in 2012, and remained at 4% in 2013.
The net public debt-to-GDP ratio forecast dropped from 37.4% to 37%, in 2012, and remained at 35.9% for 2013.
By the end of the year, one US dollar is expected to be equivalent to 1.78 Brazilian real, an increase over the previous forecast of 1.77. By the end of 2013, the estimate is 1.75.
The trade surplus forecast has been revised from US$ 19.4 billion to US$ 19.1 billion, in 2012, and from US$ 12.68 billion to US$ 14 billion, in 2013.
The estimate for the current account deficit (records of goods and services purchase and sale transactions with foreign countries) has risen from US$ 66.4 billion to US$ 66.45 billion, this year, and was remained at US$ 70 billion, in 2013.
The foreign direct investment expectation was maintained at US$ 55 billion this year. For 2013, the forecast has dropped from US$ 55 billion to US$ 54.6 billion.
*Translated by Gabriel Pomerancblum
