{"id":57281,"date":"2017-05-26T13:49:00","date_gmt":"2017-05-26T15:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/escaesco.com.br\/lab\/anba\/brazil-ran-primary-surplus-in-april\/"},"modified":"2019-06-30T12:47:14","modified_gmt":"2019-06-30T15:47:14","slug":"brazil-ran-primary-surplus-in-april","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/brazil-ran-primary-surplus-in-april\/","title":{"rendered":"Brazil ran primary surplus in April"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bras&iacute;lia &ndash; Increased tax collection and lower expenditure led the federal, states and local governments in Brazil to post a BRL 12.908 billion (USD 3.934 billion) primary surplus, the highest for an April since BRL 13.445 billion (USD 4.908 billion) in 2015, the Central Bank reported this Friday (26).<\/p>\n<p>The primary surplus consists of government savings intended for debt interest payments. According to Fernando Rocha, joint head of the Central Bank&rsquo;s Economic Department, surpluses are usual in April due to tax revenue windfalls. <\/p>\n<p>In the four months through April, a BRL 15.106 billion (USD 4. 604 billion) primary surplus was registered, up from a BRL 4.411 billion (USD 1.344 billion) surplus a year ago. <\/p>\n<p><strong>*Translated by Gabriel Pomerancblum<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The USD 3.934 billion surplus is the highest for an April since 2015, according to the Central Bank. The first four months of the year saw a primary surplus of USD 4.604 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-57281","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-economy"},"wps_subtitle":"The USD 3.934 billion surplus is the highest for an April since 2015, according to the Central Bank. The first four months of the year saw a primary surplus of USD 4.604 billion.","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57281","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=57281"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57281\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57281"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57281"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57281"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}