{"id":193625,"date":"2018-05-17T21:09:37","date_gmt":"2018-05-17T23:09:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/?p=193625"},"modified":"2018-05-17T21:19:44","modified_gmt":"2018-05-17T23:19:44","slug":"dollar-exceeds-brl-3-70","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/dollar-exceeds-brl-3-70\/","title":{"rendered":"Dollar exceeds BRL 3.70"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bras\u00edlia \u2013 For the fifth consecutive day, the dollar price went up, this time by 0.61%. Thus, it reached BRL 3.701 by the end of the day, the highest value in 26 months. The hike took place one day after the Monetary Policy Committee (COPOM) of the Brazilian Central Bank (BC) decided to maintain the benchmark interest rates at 6.5% per year.<\/p>\n<p>The hike came even though the Central Bank made adjustments to its foreign exchange market operations over the past few days. Other emerging countries, like Mexico and Turkey, also saw their currencies lose strength against the dollar today.<\/p>\n<p>Economista S\u00edlvio Campos Neto, with consulting firm Tend\u00eancias Consultoria, said the forex market is adhering to an external pattern of pressure favoring the dollar. \u201cBasically, one of the factors is the continuation of this pressure, which is a reflection of the trend toward high future interest rates in the USA,\u201d he explains.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Translated by S\u00e9rgio Kakitani &amp; Gabriel Pomerancblum<\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"credits-overlay\" data-target=\".wp-image-193620\">Archive\/Ag\u00eancia Brasil<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The North American currency had an appreciation of 0.61% over the real this Thursday. It was the currency\u2019s fifth consecutive appreciation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2315,"featured_media":193620,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[91],"tags":[2386,2822,43430,2637,2825,2827,2776,2824,2826],"class_list":{"0":"post-193625","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-economy","8":"tag-brazilian-central-bank","9":"tag-copom","10":"tag-copom-en-2","11":"tag-dollar","12":"tag-foreign-exchange-rate","13":"tag-interest-rates","14":"tag-real","15":"tag-selic","16":"tag-us"},"wps_subtitle":"The North American currency had an appreciation of 0.61% over the real this Thursday. It was the currency\u2019s fifth consecutive appreciation.","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193625","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2315"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=193625"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193625\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/193620"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=193625"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=193625"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=193625"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}