Brasília – The sales of government bonds to natural persons reached BRL 2.047 billion (USD 464 million) in January, National Treasury reported last Wednesday (26). The value sold through the Treasury Direct program represents a 27.6% decrease from the last year, when BRL 2.829 billion (USD 642 million), the highest value for the month.
The number of active investors reached 1,211,123. Last month, 9,942 participants started investing in government bonds. The number of registered investors – either active or not – reached 5,945,793 people. Bond sales is one way the government has to raise funds in order to pay debts and honor commitments.
Last month, the most sold bonds were related to the base interest rate, known as Selic. These papers concentrated 55.7% of the sales in January. They were followed by the papers adjusted by the official inflation measured by the Extended National Consumer Price Index (IPCA), which accounted for 29.9% of the sales.
Translated by Guilherme Miranda
