Brazil Foreign Currency Inflows Decline in Early December

By Fabiola Moura
Dec. 25 (Bloomberg) -- Foreign currency inflows into Brazil fell to $29 million in the first 19 days of December, compared with $3.1 billion in all of November, according to Central Bank data.
In the same period, $4.13 billion dollars more in foreign investment left the country than came in, the Central Bank said yesterday.
Brazil’s central bank said on Dec. 18 it had spent $9.8 billion of foreign reserves in the spot market since September to boost the local currency.