Brasília – The inflow and outflow of dollars in the Brazilian economy this month resulted in a US$ 39 million up to the 4th. In January, the positive balance was US$ 15.513 billion, the highest since June 2007, when the balance reached US$ 16.561 billion.
With this, the balance accumulated this year up to last Friday (4) has reached US$ 15.552 billion, against US$ 2.938 billion in the same period in 2010, as the Central Bank of Brazil (BC) informed on Wednesday (9).
In the first four working days of the month, the financial sector – investment in papers, shares, transfer of profits and dividends, among other operations – registered a negative balance of US$ 118 million.
The result for January this year was boosted by greater collection of funds abroad by companies and banks.
The Central Bank purchased US$ 8 billion on the spot market in January, its largest intervention since September 2010, when purchases totalled US$ 10 billion, to remove from the market dollars that had flowed in due to Petrobras share sales.
*Translated by Mark Ament. With information from the ANBA newsroom
