The improvement in Brazil’s current account in August was due entirely to seasonal factors and does not alter the bigger picture that the deficit has widened sharply since the start of the year. Brazil’s external financing requirement looks manageable, even in the context of Fed tapering, but a widening deficit is symptomatic of the broader problems holding back Latin America’s largest economy.
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