Brasília – The balance between Brazil’s inflow and outflow of dollars, the forex flow, was US$ 817 million negative this month up to the 15th. In the period there were nine business days. The figures were disclosed on Wednesday (20) by the Brazilian Central Bank (BC). In the first nine business days of February of last year, the balance had been US$ 6.886 billion.
The preliminary figures for this month show that the negative balance in the financial system (investment in papers, transfer of profits and dividends abroad and foreign direct investment, among other operations) was US$ 163 million. In the case of the trade flow (operations related to exports and imports), the deficit was US$ 654 million.
From January to February 15th, the trade flow is US$ 3.203 billion negative. In the period, the financial flow presented a negative result of US$ 5.41 billion and the trade result is US$ 2.207 billion positive.
*Translated by Mark Ament
