In a presidential decree, the government extended the existing 6 per cent financial transactions tax on overseas loans maturing in up to three years. Previously, the levy was applied only to loans with maturities of under two years.Some of the measures (capital controls) are direct assaults on hot money inflows, but money printing is always the last resort to slow an appreciating currency. Got gold?
President Dilma Rousseff later weighed in on the debate, vowing to defend Brazilian industry and stop developed countries’ policies from causing the “cannibalisation” of emerging markets.
Unprecedented
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FEEDThere has never been a time in the history of the markets that TLT fell
eight days in a row, but it did as of Monday.
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