巴西央行 600 亿美元稳定汇率Brazil's central bank has announced a $60bn plan to prop up the value of the national currency.巴西央行宣布投入 600 亿美元提升本国货币的价值。 It comes as the Brazilian real nears a five-year low against the US dollar. The real and other emerging market currencies have fallen steadily over the last three months on speculation of higher US interest rates. The central bank said it would spend $500m a day on Mondays to Thursdays and $1bn on Fridays buying reais in the currency markets. The Monday-to-Thursday interventions will target currency swap markets - financial derivatives used by companies and investors to hedge their currency exposure - while on Fridays, the central bank will buy the national currency directly in return for US d ollars. The interventions will run up until December. "Thi s shows the firm determination of monetary authorities to keep the exchange rate from slipping further," said A ndre Perfeito, chief economist at Gradual Investments in Sao Paulo. It is the first time the central bank has pre-announced daily interv entions in this way since 2002 - a time when markets were speculating over a possible Brazilian debt default, following the financial collapse of neighbouring Argentina and with the imminent election of President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva.
