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Strategies & Market Trends : Telebras (TBH) & Brazil
TBH 1.090+3.8%Nov 14 9:30 AM EST

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To: md1derful who wrote (6904)8/20/1998 3:41:00 PM
From: Steve Fancy  Read Replies (9) of 22640
 
Brazil forex plan safe despite mkt turmoil-Cenbank

Reuters, Thursday, August 20, 1998 at 15:13

RIO DE JANEIRO, Aug 20 (Reuters) - Brazil's foreign
exchange policy will not have to be altered because of fallout
from Russia's financial woes and rumors of a Venezuelan
devaluation, Central Bank Director Demosthenes Pinho Neto said
Thursday.
"We are not seeing anything that is going to take us off
course," Pinho Neto, the bank's international affairs director,
told reporters.
Brazil's ability to maintain its strong forex policy often
comes under close scrutiny in times of global market turmoil.
But Pinho Neto noted that Brazil was in a much stronger
position than Venezuela to defend its currency because of its
whopping $70 billion in hard currency reserves.
Venezuela, which denied market rumors Thursday that it was
mulling devaluation, has about $15 billion in reserves.
Brazil's high budget deficit of about 7.0 percent of gross
domestic product keeps interest rates high and makes it more
costly for the government to support a strong currency.
But Pinho Neto said Brazil hoped to cut the budget
shortfall to 3.5 percent of GDP over the next two to three
years.

Copyright 1998, Reuters News Service
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