{"id":208394,"date":"2019-01-28T18:37:37","date_gmt":"2019-01-28T21:37:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/?p=208394"},"modified":"2019-06-30T12:38:30","modified_gmt":"2019-06-30T15:38:30","slug":"brazil-saw-a-usd-14-5-bi-deficit-in-2018-current-accounts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/brazil-saw-a-usd-14-5-bi-deficit-in-2018-current-accounts\/","title":{"rendered":"Brazil saw a USD 14.5 bi deficit in 2018 current accounts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bras\u00edlia \u2013 Brazilian current accounts saw a negative result in 2018. The deficit in current transactions reached USD 14.511 billion, according to data published this Monday (28) by the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bcb.gov.br\/en#!\/home\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Central Bank<\/a>. The number is almost two times the one registered in 2017, when the balance stood in negative USD 7.235 billion.<\/p>\n<p>Trade surplus contributed with USD 53.587 billion to reduce the deficit in the current accounts. On the other hand, the service account (international travel, transport, investment rentals, among others) saw a USD 33.952 billion negative balance, while primary income (earnings and dividend actions, interest and wage payments) stood at USD 36.668 billion.<\/p>\n<p>Secondary income (donations and US dollar remittances not involving the exchange of goods or services) posted a USD 2.522 billion positive result last year.<\/p>\n<p>In 2018, foreign direct investments in Brazil reached USD 88.314 billion, more than enough to finance the current account deficit. In relation to Gross Domestic Product (GDP), investments stood at 4.7%, while the current accounts deficit represented 0.77% of the GDP. Direct investments in comparison with GDP reached a plateau since 2001 (4.79%).<\/p>\n<p><strong>Translated by Guilherme Miranda<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Number is two times the one registered in 2017. Foreign direct investments reached USD 88.3 billion, more than enough to finance the negative balance in current account.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2315,"featured_media":0,"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":[1803,37109,7088,2226,3413,496,573],"class_list":{"0":"post-208394","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-economy","7":"tag-central-bank","8":"tag-contas-externas-en","9":"tag-current-accounts","10":"tag-deficit","11":"tag-foreign-direct-investments","12":"tag-investments","13":"tag-trade-balance"},"wps_subtitle":"Number is two times the one registered in 2017. Foreign direct investments reached USD 88.3 billion, more than enough to finance the negative balance in current account.","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208394","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=208394"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208394\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=208394"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=208394"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=208394"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}