Brazil Real Falls as Goldman Sachs Cites Fiscal Insolvency Risk

Brazil’s real tumbled after inflation accelerated and as Goldman Sachs said the currency is poised to drop another 10 percent this year while the government struggles to contain consumer-price increases and shore up its budget.

Sentiment in Brazil remains distinctively negative and the dominant view is that things will get worse before they get better, Alberto Ramos, a senior economist at the bank, wrote in a report Tuesday after a three-day visit to Brazil and meetings with policy makers at the Finance Ministry, central bank, national development bank and Petrobras.

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