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And since the domestic sector does not wish to hold foreign currency, it will engage in an FX transaction with the domestic CB
When the bank uses such a swap to limit the depreciation of the real, it offers to pay the difference between the initial exchange rate and the final exchange rate during the period of the contract, plus a dollar-linked rate of interest (known to traders as the cupom cambial). In return, it receives the cumulative interbank interest rate (currently about 10 per cent a year) on the amount of the contract in Brazilian reals. Crucially, the contracts are settled entirely in reals. No dollars exchange hands and there is no obvious impact on the country's ability to pay its foreign debts.
You use 6 columns: Domestic nongov't domestic currency account Domestic nongov't foreign currency account Gov't domestic currency account Gov't foreign currency account Foreign domestic currency account Foreign foreign currency account
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