{"id":34538,"date":"2010-05-05T15:48:00","date_gmt":"2010-05-05T17:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/escaesco.com.br\/lab\/anba\/brazil-had-us-2-2-billion-trade-balance-surplus-in-april\/"},"modified":"2019-06-30T13:34:22","modified_gmt":"2019-06-30T16:34:22","slug":"brazil-had-us-2-2-billion-trade-balance-surplus-in-april","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/brazil-had-us-2-2-billion-trade-balance-surplus-in-april\/","title":{"rendered":"Brazil had US$ 2.2 billion trade balance surplus in April"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bras\u00edlia \u2013 The inflow and outflow of dollars to and from Brazil &#8211; the trade flow &#8211; ended the month of April with a US$ 2.248 billion positive result this year, informed today (5) the Central Bank of Brazil. In the same month last year, the balance was also positive, totalling US$ 1.430 billion.<\/p>\n<p> Last month, the result was boosted by the financial flow (investment in bonds, profit and dividend transfer abroad and foreign direct investment, among other operations), with a positive balance of US$ 2.887 billion. The trade flow (export and import operations as well as financing for the sector) generated a negative result of US$ 639 million.<\/p>\n<p> From January to April, the trade flow was US$ 5.038 billion positive, against a US$ 1.544 billion deficit in the same period in 2009. In the first four months of the year, the financial flow is US$ 5.708 billion positive, whereas the trade flow is US$ 670 million negative.<\/p>\n<p> The Central Bank also informed that purchases in dollars on the spot market increased international reserves by US$ 3.027 billion, the best result this year (US$ 1.709 billion in January, US$ 350 million in February and US$ 2.891 billion in March).<\/p>\n<p> <b>*Translated by Mark Ament<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The surplus was boosted by financial operations, as trade operations generated a deficit. In the accumulated result for the year, the balance is at US$ 5 billion.<\/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-34538","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-economy"},"wps_subtitle":"The surplus was boosted by financial operations, as trade operations generated a deficit. In the accumulated result for the year, the balance is at US$ 5 billion.","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34538","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=34538"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34538\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34538"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34538"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34538"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}