{"id":200168,"date":"2018-08-30T18:26:34","date_gmt":"2018-08-30T21:26:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/?p=200168"},"modified":"2018-08-30T18:49:57","modified_gmt":"2018-08-30T21:49:57","slug":"dollar-climbs-central-bank-intervenes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/dollar-climbs-central-bank-intervenes\/","title":{"rendered":"Dollar climbs and Central Bank intervenes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>S\u00e3o Paulo \u2013 The Brazilian Central Bank (BC) intervened this Thursday (30) to bring back down the dollar, which, for a period, had surpassed BRL 4.20. The BC announced it sold USD 1.5 billion worth of currency swaps. After the announcement, the dollar came back down to BRL 4.1463, still up 0.78% over the previous day.<\/p>\n<p>The last currency swap held by BC was in June, when the financial market was reflecting the impact of the truckers\u2019 strike, between the end of May and beginning of June.<\/p>\n<p>Ibovespa, the main stock index of the S\u00e3o Paulo Stock Exchange (Bovespa) ended the day going down 2.53% with 76,404 points. Preferred shares of Eletrobras, with three subsidiaries auctioned this Thursday, drove the decline with a depreciation of 5.75%.<\/p>\n<p>Following the trend, shares of large companies also slid, such as Petrobras (-2.69%), Vale (-1.32%), Ita\u00fa (-3.85%) and Bradesco (-3.97%).<\/p>\n<p><strong>Translated by S\u00e9rgio Kakitani <\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"credits-overlay\" data-target=\".wp-image-175233\">Frank Duenzl\/Picture Alliance\/DPA\/AFP<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The North American currency, for a period, had surpassed BRL 4.20 this Thursday. The Brazilian Central Bank (BC) sold USD 1.5 billion worth of currency swaps.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2315,"featured_media":175233,"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":[1799,38392,2777,2386,3532,3270,2637,3036,3407,2825,2779,3637],"class_list":{"0":"post-200168","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-economy","8":"tag-bc","9":"tag-bolsa-de-valores-en","10":"tag-bovespa","11":"tag-brazilian-central-bank","12":"tag-capital-market","13":"tag-currency-swap","14":"tag-dollar","15":"tag-eletrobras","16":"tag-financial-market","17":"tag-foreign-exchange-rate","18":"tag-ibovespa","19":"tag-stock-market"},"wps_subtitle":"The North American currency, for a period, had surpassed BRL 4.20 this Thursday. The Brazilian Central Bank (BC) sold USD 1.5 billion worth of currency swaps.   ","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200168","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=200168"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200168\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/175233"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=200168"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=200168"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=200168"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}