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Brazil's $2 Billion Currency Intervention

Move designed to bolster exports makes the Brazilian real one of the world's biggest losers.

By Paula Sambo, Bloomberg | Updated on May 02, 2016

Brazil’s real led losses among its most-traded peers as the central bank intervened to weaken the currency in a bid to slow this year’s rally and support exporters.

The real dropped 1.6 percent to 3.4913 per dollar at 2:03 p.m. in Sao Paulo, making it the world’s worst-performing currency after Libya’s dinar. The loss came after the monetary authority sold 40,000 reverse swaps Monday, a move that’s equivalent to buying US$2 billion in the futures market.

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