Make use of a graph of the foreign exchange market to show how the Brazilian Central Bank can use an unsterilized intervention to reduce the value of its currency, the real, in terms of the dollar

What will be an ideal response?


An unsterilized intervention by the central bank of Brazil results in lower Brazilian interest rates. As a result, the demand for reals decreases since fewer foreign investors will want to purchase Brazilian bonds and the supply increases as more Brazilians buy foreign bonds. The result is an decrease in the value of the real.

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