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The Central Bank of Brazil announced simultaneous auctions on June 25, 2025, selling $1 billion in spot dollars and an equal amount in reverse FX swaps. Traders debated whether this tool would be used more often, with the swap stock at $101 billion and reserves at $341 billion.
Central bank dollar sales can ease spot-market demand and cap real weakness, which lowers the local cost of dollar-priced feed imports and affects Brazilian export competitiveness.
valorinternational.globo.comGabriel Roca, Victor RezendeJun 25, 2025After 13 past bearish policy events, Brazilian Real (BRL per USD) moved a median -3.4% over 5 sessions (15% higher; middle half -3.4% to -1.3%), and -1.9% over 20.
Moves of each commodity's benchmark from the last close before the event. Historical reads pool past events of the same kind; they describe what happened, not what will. Not investment advice.
