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The day after Standard & Poor’s lowered the country’s risk rating, the US currency closed at R$ 3.85 for sale and the São Paulo stock exchange index dropped 0.33%. Petrobras also lost its investment-grade status.

Brazilian exports to the Arab country totaled US$ 15.7 million from January to August. The president of the sector’s association says that sales are “an outlier”, since the sector’s abroad sales is declining.

The indicator measured by Fundação Getulio Vargas increased 3.6% in the third from the second quarter of this year, but the number of businesses that will rein investments in is higher.