After speculations suggesting that the Brazilian currency will suffer further interventions from the national central bank to stop is rally, the real had a negative performance this week that only ended today after global optimism rose attractiveness for assets in emergent markets.

The Brazilian real managed to rise more than 1 percent versus the U.S. before the end of today’s session as positive data in Europe and Asia forced up demand for commodities and rose risk appetite, bringing investors to inject capital in Brazil despite speculations that further measures to stop the currency’s rally will be taken.

USD/BRL closed at 1.7269 from an opening rate of 1.7345.

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