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Most Latin American currencies recovered session losses on Wednesday as the dollar pared gains made after a chaotic US presidential debate. Mexico's peso jumped as much as 2.2%, while Brazil's real gained 0.4% on hopes of conservative spending.
Brazil's national debt rose to a record 88.8% of GDP.
A firmer Brazilian real and peso lower the local-currency cost of imported feed ingredients and can ease pressure on Brazilian and Mexican feed buyers; fiscal concerns in Brazil limit how much the real can strengthen.
brecorder.comReutersSep 30, 2020Not enough comparable past events yet for a historical read.
After 1,637 past bearish macro events, DXY moved a median -0.2% over 5 sessions (39% higher; middle half -0.6% to +0.3%), and -0.2% over 20.
After 213 past bearish macro events, USDBRL moved a median -0.2% over 5 sessions (46% higher; middle half -1.5% to +0.9%), and +0.2% 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.
