Ag\u00eancia Brasil*<\/STRONG><\/P> Bras\u00edlia \u2013 The Brazilian balance of payments, which consists of all commercial and financial transactions with foreign countries, recorded a US$ 4.252 surplus in October, and a US$ 77.996 billion surplus in the accumulated result for the year. During the equivalent periods of last year, the figures recorded were US$ 4.683 billion and US$ 23.510 billion, respectively.<\/P> The current account surplus \u2013 which includes the balance of trade, services and income, and unilateral transfers \u2013 posted a US$ 42 million deficit in October, against a US$ 471 million surplus recorded in September this year. The data were culled from the Foreign Sector report, published today (28th) by the Brazilian Central Bank.<\/P> In the whole of the year, the account accumulates a surplus of US$ 5.597 billion, against US$ 11.789 billion recorded in the same period of last year. The projection of the Central Bank for this year is for the current account surplus to reach US$ 7.8 billion.<\/P> The balance of trade recorded a US$ 3.439 billion surplus in October, and a US$ 34,377 billion surplus in the accumulated result for the year; the incomes and services account closed at a US$ 3.785 billion deficit in October; unilateral current transferences posted a US$ 304 million surplus, and in the accumulated result for the year, a US$ 3,323 billion surplus.<\/P> Foreign direct investments stood at US$ 3.188 billion in October, and in the accumulated result for the year, at US$ 31.2 billion. The forecast for this year is for the total to reach US$ 32 billion. During the same period of 2006, direct investments totalled US$ 13.628 billion, and in the whole of the year, US$ 18.782 billion.<\/P> Foreign reserves reached US$ 167.867 billion in October, against US$ 162.962 in September this year.<\/P> *Translated by Gabriel Pomerancblum<\/STRONG><\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Ag\u00eancia Brasil* Bras\u00edlia \u2013 The Brazilian balance of payments, which consists of all commercial and financial transactions with foreign countries, recorded a US$ 4.252 surplus in October, and a US$ 77.996 billion surplus in the accumulated result for the year. During the equivalent periods of last year, the figures recorded were US$ 4.683 billion and<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1466,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","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":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-25703","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-economy"},"wps_subtitle":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25703","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\/1466"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25703"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25703\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25703"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25703"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25703"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}