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Summary: USDBRL Extends Losses To Near 2%

LATAM
  • The Brazilian real continued its upward trajectory on Monday with the currency pair alleviating a large percentage of last week's selloff.
  • Elsewhere, the Chilean peso also rose notably with USDCLP briefly breaching support below 806.63.
  • Tomorrow's data focus will be on Brazil's mid-month IPCA inflation data where the annual headline figure is expected to fall to 10.10% ahead of Wednesday's Copom decision. Brazil will also publish formal job creation figures for September.
  • Below gives key levels of LatAm markets in current trade:
    • USDMXN up 0.02% at 20.1828
    • USDBRL down 1.86% at 5.545
    • USDCLP down 0.97% at 808.08
    • USDCOP down 0.17% at 3767.8
    • USDPEN up 0.18% at 3.9735
    • BRLMXN up 1.93% at 3.64
    • BBG Dollar Index up 0.13% at 1155.79
    • JPMorgan EM Ccy Index up 0.43% at 55.268
    • S&P E-Mini Future up 22.75 points (0.5%) at 4559
    • BBG Commodity Index up 2.0857 points (2.01%) at 105.8398
    • WTI Crude Oil (front-month) down $0.23 (-0.27%) at $83.53
    • Gold is up $13.75 (0.77%) at $1806.33
    • Copper Futures up 2.9 (0.64%) at 452.70
    • US 10-Yr yield is up 0.4 bps at 1.636%

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