São Paulo – The flow of foreign exchange, i.e. the balance of incoming and outgoing US dollars in Brazil, was US$ 9.8 billion positive year-to-date through July 10th, the Central Bank has reported. A year earlier, the result was negative.
This year, financial operations resulted in US$ 294 billion being wired out of the country, and US$ 293.2 billion being wired in. The result was a US$ 866 million deficit. Foreign trade-related operations registered a US$ 10.7 billion surplus, as a result of US$ 88.4 billion in imports and US$ 99.1 billion in exports.
*Translated by Gabriel Pomerancblum
