Brasília – Brazil’s inflow of dollars exceeded the outflow by US$ 5.803 billion in April, up to the 27th (19 working days), according to trade flow figures disclosed on Wednesday (2) by the Central Bank (BC). The information for the month will be closed next Wednesday (9), to include the last day of April (30).
Last month, up to the 27th, the trade area (operations related to exports and imports) registered net inflow (excluding the outflow) of US$ 6.567 billion.
The financial sector (investment in bonds, shares and transfer abroad of profits and dividends, among other operations), in turn, reported greater outflow than inflow of dollars, posting a negative result of US$ 765 million.
From January to April 27th, the net inflow of dollars reached US$ 24.530 billion, against US$ 37.133 billion recorded in the same period in 2011. The trade sector registered net inflow of US$ 16.5 billion and financial inflow of US$ 8.03 billion.
*Translated by Mark Ament
