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Brazilian stocks and Real fall amid difficulty in approving pension plan reform

Brazilian financial market reacts negatively again to the noise surrounding the pension reform. According to professionals, this morning’s news brought more negative elements about the possibilities of the government being able to approve the reform, which was reflected in the dollar, interest rate hikes and in the fall of the Ibovespa stock index at the…

December 7, 2017
Brazilian Economy shrinks 0.51% in May, according to the Central Bank

The Brazilian economy has not confirmed the brief improvement in April. The Economic Activity Index Central Bank (IBC-Br) fell 0.51% in May, after growing 0.07% in April (revised), which was the first increase in 15 months. In the year, the decline was a significant 5.79%. In the 12 months ending in May, the IBC-Br indicates…

July 15, 2016
EWZ: Ibovespa has its best semester since 2009 and US$ drops 18.6% versus the Brazilian Real

Brazilian’s most traded stock ETF in the US, EWZ soared 46.5% in the same 6 months: In the beginning of the year, the perspective for the Brazilian market was not good with the country in recession and inflation sky rocketing. However, in the middle of February, the inflection started fueled by a global recover in…

July 4, 2016
What to Expect for Brazilian Interest Rate in 2016

Monetary Policy Committee (COPOM) has decided to keep the Brazilian interest rate benchmark in Brazil (SELIC) at 14.25% a year, unanimously. The central bank repeated the note issued with the previous decision, in which it says “we see advances in the inflation fighting but the still elevated cost of living and expectations are out of the target”.…

June 10, 2016
Foreign investment in Brazil grows in September, covers external gap

Brazil’s current account deficit grew wider than expected in September but was easily covered by foreign investments, central bank data showed on Friday. Brazil posted a current account deficit of $3.076 billion in September, larger than a gap of $2.487 billion in August and the $2.3 billion deficit forecast by economists for the month, central…

October 25, 2015
Moody’s reduce Brazilian sovereign rating but stable outlook reduces chance of losing investment grade

Moody’s rating agency announced on Tuesday the downgrade of Brazil’s sovereign risk rating from ‘Baa2’ to ‘Baa3’, the lowest in the investment grade scale. Moody’s also changed the outlook from “negative” to “stable”. The market was expecting the reduction in the Brazilian rating, but there was a concern that the agency would maintain a negative…

August 12, 2015
Brazilian Antitrust Council Investigates 15 Foreign Financial Institutions for FOREX Manipulation

Brazilian antitrust council, CADE (Administrative Council for Economic Defense), opened an administrative process to investigate alleged cartel consisting of 15 foreign financial institutions in order to manipulate the foreign exchange market. It is the first antitrust case in Brazil for manipulating rates in the financial market. Some of these banks have been investigated for the…

July 3, 2015