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Brazil Registers Record Deficit in Current Accounts

By Lise Alves, Senior Contributing Reporter

SÃO PAULO, BRAZIL – Brazil’s current accounts in 2014 registered a record deficit of US$90.948 billion, according to data released by Brazil’s Central Bank (CB) on Friday, January 23rd. The result was well above 2013’s deficit of US$81.108 billion and the highest registered since the CB started the series in 1947.

Last year’s annual deficit is equivalent to 4.17 percent of the country’s GDP, the worst result since 2001.

The Central Bank released both December 2014 results as well as results for the entire . . .

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