{"id":212966,"date":"2019-04-25T15:07:22","date_gmt":"2019-04-25T18:07:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/?p=212966"},"modified":"2019-06-30T12:36:32","modified_gmt":"2019-06-30T15:36:32","slug":"brazils-current-account-deficit-narrowed-in-march","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/brazils-current-account-deficit-narrowed-in-march\/","title":{"rendered":"Brazil\u2019s current account deficit narrowed in March"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bras\u00edlia \u2013 Brazil ran a USD 494 million current account deficit in March, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bcb.gov.br\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Brazilian Central Bank<\/a>\u00a0reported this Thursday (25). The result is narrower than the USD 666 million deficit seen in March 2018.<\/p>\n<p>Q1 current account deficit was USD 8,176 billion, down from USD 9 billion in Q1 2018.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAlthough the trade surplus weakened from USD 6 billion to USD 4.5 billion, the deficits were narrower for the services account, going from USD 2.8 billion to USD 2.1 billion, and the primary income account (profits and dividends, interest and wage payments), from USD 4 billion to USD 3.3 billion,\u201d a Central Bank report read.<\/p>\n<p>In the 12 months through March, Brazil posted a USD 13.7 billion deficit (at 0.73% of GDP), not much different than the USD 13.9 billion result in the 12 months through February (0.74% of GDP).<\/p>\n<p>Net FDI inflows came out to USD 6.8 billion in March, down from USD 7.8 billion in March 2018.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Translated by Gabriel Pomerancblum<\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"credits-overlay\" data-target=\".wp-image-196743\">Cris Faga\/NurPhoto\/AFP<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The deficit slid to USD 494 million, from USD 666 million in March 2018.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2315,"featured_media":196743,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","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":[3411,2386,27115,5208,2859,3901,2778],"class_list":{"0":"post-212966","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-economy","8":"tag-balance-of-payments","9":"tag-brazilian-central-bank","10":"tag-cambio-en","11":"tag-current-account-deficit","12":"tag-exchange-rate","13":"tag-fdi","14":"tag-us-dollar"},"wps_subtitle":"The deficit slid to USD 494 million, from USD 666 million in March 2018. ","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212966","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=212966"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212966\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/196743"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=212966"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=212966"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=212966"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}