{"id":31813,"date":"2009-08-12T19:06:00","date_gmt":"2009-08-12T21:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/escaesco.com.br\/lab\/anba\/brazil-records-us-2-2-billion-foreign-currency-surplus-in-august\/"},"modified":"2019-06-30T13:38:23","modified_gmt":"2019-06-30T16:38:23","slug":"brazil-records-us-2-2-billion-foreign-currency-surplus-in-august","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/brazil-records-us-2-2-billion-foreign-currency-surplus-in-august\/","title":{"rendered":"Brazil records US$ 2.2 billion foreign currency surplus in August"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bras\u00edlia \u2013 The sum of dollar inflow and outflow in Brazil yielded a positive result of US$ 2.255 billion from the 1st to the 7th this month, with five business days. In the same period last year, the flow of foreign currency was positive by US$ 2.178 billion. The data was disclosed today (12th) by the Brazilian Central Bank.<\/p>\n<p> The result was mainly driven by investment in bonds, remittance of profits and dividends to foreign countries, and foreign direct investment, among other operations, which ran a surplus of US$ 2.696 billion, whereas trade operations (export and import contracts) recorded a deficit of US$ 441 million.<\/p>\n<p> In the accumulated result from January until August 7th, the sum of dollar inflow and outflow is US$ 6.19 billion, as against US$ 14.618 billion in the same period of 2008. From January until early this month, the sum of dollar inflow and outflow ran a deficit of US$ 3.364 billion, and a trade surplus of US$ 9.554 was recorded.<\/p>\n<p> The Central Bank also informed that in the first week of August, it purchased a total of US$ 779 million. The dollars purchased become part of the country&#8217;s foreign exchange reserves.<\/p>\n<p> <b>*Translated by Gabriel Pomerancblum<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bras\u00edlia \u2013 The sum of dollar inflow and outflow in Brazil yielded a positive result of US$ 2.255 billion from the 1st to the 7th this month, with five business days. In the same period last year, the flow of foreign currency was positive by US$ 2.178 billion. The data was disclosed today (12th) by<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2315,"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-31813","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\/31813","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=31813"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31813\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31813"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31813"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31813"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}