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Completed

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October 15, 2026 at 11:17 AM

Completed At

October 15, 2026 at 11:18 AM

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1 minute

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Brazilian Real's Quiet Prop Is Brazil's Huge Trade Surplus

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        "point": "Investors have been pricing in a victory for Flavio Bolsonaro, who performed stronger than anticipated in the first round of elections on October 4th, receiving 47% of votes against Lula's 45.2%.",
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        "point": "Other defeated presidential candidates in the first round tend to support Bolsonaro, giving him room to grow in the second round.",
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        "point": "A higher voter turnout in states where Bolsonaro led in the first round might favor him in the second round.",
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        "point": "In the absence of Brazil's political scenario, the Brazilian Real would likely be weakening due to the stronger US dollar trend.",
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        "point": "The US economy shows good economic data with quick GDP expansion and a stable, healthy labor market with historical low unemployment.",
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  "transcript": "The Brazilian Real's outlook for the fourth quarter of 2026 will depend on Brazil's presidential election, interest rate expectations, and trade performance. To discuss the factors that could move the currency, we're joined by Leonel Mattos, Senior Market Intelligence Analyst at StoneX Brazil. Leonel, good to see you. Fiona, thanks for having me. The Brazil's October presidential election is likely to be the main driver for the Real for the final months of 2026. How could it affect the currency? Yes, precisely. So the presidential election will most likely be the dominant factor to influence the Brazilian Real performance this best quarter of 2026. So investors have been pricing in a victory by Flavio Bolsonaro, which is the main opposition candidate to our current president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva. We had the first round of elections on the October 4th, and Flavio had a performance much stronger than was anticipated by analysts by voters' intentions polls. So he ended up ahead of President Lula by a small margin. He had 47% of the votes against 45.2% by Lula. But there are several factors that favors the chances of a victory by Flavio Bolsonaro. The main one because the other candidates for the presidency that were defeated in this first round, they all tend to the right-wing camp of political spectrum, and they all have supported the Bolsonaro bid in this second round. So voters who voted for these candidates in the first round will most likely vote for Flavio rather than for Lula. So he has room to grow in the second round. The absence rate was higher in states where Flavio Bolsonaro led against Lula. So eventually a higher turnout rate might actually favor Flavio because of the voter pattern in these states in the second round. And a bit of a historical trivia, so since 1989, the winner of the first round of elections always won the second round of elections. So Flavio has that at his favor as well. And market participants' reaction made clear that they prefer a government alternance here in Brazil. They'd like to see another president to take to lead the country for the next four years because they perceive that Flavio could be more conservative on his fiscal policy and help to stabilize Brazil public debt. So after the first round, we saw a huge strengthening of the Brazilian Real because voters anticipate that we'll have lower risks for our assets coming forward. Of course, we still need to see the second round to confirm this result, but investors are already anticipating that Flavio will win and the Brazilian Real has a strong tailwind to support its value for the next four years. And another driver for the Real has been the US dollar movement and US Fed policy. What does the US interest rate outlook let us expect for the Brazilian Real? Yeah, it's interesting because the Brazilian Real has performed really well compared to another currencies of similar economies against another pairs because the current trend is for a global strengthening of the US dollar. And the main driver for this global strengthening of the US dollar is the expectation for higher for longer interest rates in the US. So in the absence of this political scenario here in Brazil, probably the Brazilian Real would be weakening. It should remain a risk factor for further weakening of the Real in this past few months. Because in the US, we are seeing some very good economic data for the economy, showing that the production, the GDP in the country is expanding quickly. The labor market is not expanding, but it is stable at a healthy level with unemployment rate at historical lows. And the inflation remains the main concern. We do not see the inflation picking up speed, getting worse, but it is stable for the past few months at a level higher than the Federal Reserve target for inflation rate. So given the context, the the risk balance tilts clearly toward inflations and Federal Reserve is already showing that it it tends to make a a series of rate hikes, a cycle of rate hikes in the US to help stabilize the inflation faster. And on top of that, we have also external risks, external inflationary risks that help to strengthen this tendency because we see no signs of progress in the short term for the Middle East for the flow of oil and the supply of oil and fuel globally. So this inflation risks and this higher inflation problem in the US should lead to higher interest rates in the economy and that helps to bring inflows of foreign capital and strengthens the US dollar. And the Real on the other hand tends to weak tends to weaken because of this tendency of a stronger dollar. And Brazil's benchmark Selic interest rate now stands at 13.75% and that's after 5 25 basis point cuts so far this year. What could determine whether Brazil continues cutting the Selic rate? Well, that's a great question. If on one hand on the Federal Reserve, we do have a pretty clear picture of how the Fed should react given the economic data. Here in Brazil, the the scenario is more mixed. So there are some factors that should favor the Central Bank to keep cutting. As you said, we had already five cuts in sequence here in Brazil, and investors pricing seven more until the end of 2027. But on the other hand, we do have also a challenging scenario for inflation outlook. So our Central Bank has been highlighting in past decisions that our economy is slowing, the demand domestic demand is slowing in Brazil, credit demand here in Brazil as well is slowing. So interest rates are in a restrictive level, a restrictive territory, and the Central Bank wants to lower the interest rate to help stimulate the economy to soften the blow of this high interest rates on the economy. But Central Bank also acknowledges that inflation outlook is pretty bleak until at least the first half of 2027. On one hand, we also have this global problem of oil and fuel prices because of the Middle East, such as the US, every economy is facing that. But we also have a strong labor market here in Brazil, with high demand pressuring service prices, bringing some challenging some further challenging to our Central Bank to stabilize inflation. And also we should experience this end of 2026, first half of 2027, a very strong El Nino, which of course affects every region, every commodity differently, but on the the net result here of El Nino should be higher prices for food because it has an unfavorable condition for most food here producing Brazil. And that also brings an additional challenge because of a strong El Nino, there is a high chance of lower production of hydroelectric electricity here in Brazil, of power, and we may have to use more thermal electrics in a moment that natural gas and diesel are also in high prices because of the challenging Middle East scenario. So the Central Bank is avoiding to to to indicate what would it do on its next steps because it acknowledges that it has challenges and contradictory pressures to to alleviate. But overall, the investors anticipate that we will have still one more cut for 2026 and several more to 2027, which also makes it harder to bring in foreign capital to Brazil. It we offer lower yields for the foreign investors, and that also acts as a factor of weakening to the Real. And we know that Brazil maintains a strong trade surplus. Do you expect Brazil's trade performance to continue supporting the currency? Yes, actually, the the trade flows here in Brazil have been highly positive for the past few years. We are netting about 70 billion, 80 billion, almost 100 billion dollars per year on our trade flows here in Brazil. And that has been a major force to help to stimulate the currency and to strengthen the Brazilian Real. Even though this year, because of the elections and uncertainty of what would be the next four years in Brazil, we saw some pretty heavy outflows of financial investments here in Brazil. The commercial revenue from the exports were more than enough to to counter this external weakening pressure. So the positive trade flow for Brazil should definitely be a factor for the strengthening of the Brazilian Real in this last three months of 2026. Well, thank you very much for your analysis once again. Thank you, Fiona, for the opportunity. For more videos like this, please do like and subscribe.",
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