Tuesday's $1 billion sale, taking central bank intervention since Thursday to over $4 billion, came as pressure on Brazilian assets intensified after President Jair Bolsonaro eliminated certain fuel taxes and increased a tax on banks.
There's a (market) crisis of confidence in the government, and we have negative rates.
The US dollar has been weighed down by a string of soft labor market data, even as President Joe Biden's proposed $1.9 trillion spending package takes shape.
What the foreign exchange market is looking at in the short term, is the dollar is going to be weak despite progress in the economy because this country has a huge deficit problem.
The Taiwan dollar is at a more than 23-year-high against the greenback as the island's trade-dependent economy booms on the back of global demand for its tech products.
The suspension will be a year or more for the most serious cases, the sources said, without saying the length of time being applied to each bank.