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The week was marked by exchange rate volatility, with the dollar hovering around R$ 5.00. The U.S. currency even surpassed this level on Wednesday, pressured by three simultaneous factors: domestic political noise following the leaked audio involving Flávio Bolsonaro and the owner of Banco Master; a worsening fiscal outlook due to the Provisional Measure subsidizing gasoline using extraordinary revenues from Petrobras; and the external environment, with Kevin Warsh taking office at the Fed and his heterodox speech aligned with the Trump administration. Despite the resilience shown early in the week—supported by the high interest rate differential, a still-robust trade surplus, and foreign inflows—the real did not escape the generalized pressure on emerging market currencies by the end of the period, as the escalation of the conflict in the Middle East weighed on global risk appetite, leaving it as one of the worst-performing emerging market currencies.

The yield curve saw an upward shift during the week, pressured by a combination of domestic political noise, deteriorating fiscal perception due to the fuel Provisional Measure, and external uncertainties surrounding the confirmation hearing of the new Fed chair in the U.S. The April IPCA, released during the week, came in line with expectations—but with a qualitative deterioration, highlighted by accelerating fuel and food prices, which reinforced the view of a central bank with no room to accelerate the pace of its rate-cutting cycle. Consequently, market bets consolidated around a higher terminal Selic rate than previously expected, contributing to keeping long-term interest rates under pressure throughout the week.


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