Ag\u00eancia Brasil*<\/STRONG><\/P> Bras\u00edlia \u2013 The economy of the public sector (federal government, states, cities and state-owned companies) to honour their financial engagements and payment of interest on their debts, the so-called primary surplus, reached 18.712 billion reals (US$ 11 billion at current exchange rates) in April. In the same period of last year, the primary surplus had been R$ 23.458 billion reals (US$ 14 billion).<\/P> According to the Central Bank, this year the primary surplus has already reached R$ 61.743 billion reals (US$ 37 billion). In the same quarter of last year, the result was 50.732 billion reals (US$ 30 billion).<\/P> In the month, the central government (federal government, Central Bank and Social Security) was the main contributor to the result, with 16.861 billion reals (US$ 10 billion). Regional governments (states and cities) economized 2.459 billion reals (US$ 1.4 billion). State-owned companies presented a primary deficit of 608 million reals (US$ 365 million).<\/P> Up to April, the payment of interest reached R$ 54.858 billion reals (US$ 33 billion). In the same quarter of last year the payment of interest totalled 51.136 billion reals (US$ 31 billion). In the month of April, interest paid by the consolidated public sector reached 14.879 billion reals (US$ 9 billion), against 12.238 billion reals (US$ 7 billion) registered in the same month last year.<\/P> The Central Bank of Brazil also informed that the public sector has returned to registering a nominal surplus (revenues minus expenses, including expenses with interest). Figures disclosed by the organisation today (28) show that in April the result was 3.842 billion reals (US$ 2 billion). In the accumulated result for the year, the nominal surplus was 6.885 billion reals (US$ 4 billion).<\/P> In the first quarter of last year, the public sector had registered a nominal deficit of 405 million reals (US$ 243 million). In April last year, the result was 11.173 billion reals (US$ 7 billion) in nominal surplus.<\/P> *Translated by Mark Ament<\/STRONG><\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Ag\u00eancia Brasil* Bras\u00edlia \u2013 The economy of the public sector (federal government, states, cities and state-owned companies) to honour their financial engagements and payment of interest on their debts, the so-called primary surplus, reached 18.712 billion reals (US$ 11 billion at current exchange rates) in April. In the same period of last year, the primary<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2308,"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-27336","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\/27336","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\/2308"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27336"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27336\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27336"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27336"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27336"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}