Brasília – The balance between the flow of dollars entering and exiting Brazil (the exchange flow) last week resulted in a deficit of US$ 1.391 billion, according to figures disclosed today (18) by the Central Bank of Brazil. However, with the positive result of the first week of February (US$ 1.917 billion), the partial balance for the month, up to the 12th, is US$ 526 million positive. The result for the first two weeks of February is lower, though, than in the same period last year, when it totalled US$ 1.026 billion.
In the accumulated result from January to last Friday (12), the result is US$ 1.6 billion positive, against a negative balance of US$ 1.992 billion in the same period last year.
In the two weeks of February, the financial balance (investment in papers, transfer abroad of profits and dividends and foreign direct investment, among other operations) was US$ 2.187 positive. The trade balance, which covers export, import and financing to the sector, however, had a negative result of US$ 1.661 billion.
From January to the second week of this month, the financial flow was US$ 3.401 billion and the trade flow was US$ 1.801 billion negative.
The Central Bank of Brazil also informed that purchases of dollars on the spot market raised international reserves by US$ 257 million in the first two weeks of February this year. In January, the result was US$ 1.709 billion.
*Translated by Mark Ament