The decision by Brazil’s central bank to respond to what has been a relatively modest rebound in the real over the past month by scaling back some of its support for the currency suggests that policymakers may be more tolerant of a weaker exchange rate than was commonly believed. Instead, the key lesson from the summer sell-off is that it is sudden swings in the currency that most concern the authorities.
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