Brasília – Investments increased in last year’s Q4 but declined during the whole year. That’s what shows the Monthly Indicator for the Gross Fixed Capital Formation (FBCF), measured by the Institute for Applied Economic Research (IPEA).
The indicator includes investments in machinery and equipment, construction industry and other fixed assets and it’s considered a preliminary of the measurement made by the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics (IBGE). FBCF shows if companies increased or not their capital goods, that is, those used to produce other items.
According to data released this Tuesday (20) by IPEA, the FBCF climbed 4.2% in December over November 2017, in the seasonally-adjusted data. With this result, the investments indicators ended Q4 with a 1.7% increase over the previous quarter, also seasonally adjusted. In the comparison of Q4 2017 with the same period of the previous year, investments increased 3.3%. During 2017, it went down 2%.
*Translated by Sérgio Kakitani
