Brasília – Brazil recorded a net inflow (outflow discounted) of US$ 24.354 billion in 2010, a lower result than in the previous year, when the net inflow reached US$ 28.732 billion.
In the financial sector (investment in bonds, shares, remittances of profits and dividends to foreign countries, among other operations) there was a net inflow of US$ 26.004 billion in 2010. The strong inflow of funds was influenced by the fund-raising operations carried out by the Brazilian oil company Petrobras. In September, the country recorded the highest inflow of dollars in a single month through the oil sector, at a total of US$ 16.716 billion.
The trade sector (exports, imports and financing to foreign trade), in turn, recorded a net outflow of US$ 1.65 billion in 2010.
Last month, the financial sector recorded a net outflow of US$ 2.418 billion, whereas trade saw a net inflow of US$ 509 million. As a result, a net outflow of US$ 1.910 billion was recorded in December.
*Translated by Gabriel Pomerancblum
