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Brazilian Stocks Are Getting Decimated

Mike Bird   

Brazilian Stocks Are Getting Decimated

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A worker walks past a banner of Brazil's President Dilma Rousseff.

Global investors are selling off Brazilian equities this morning, after Dilma Rousseff was narrowly re-elected as the country's president Sunday.

Markets were hoping for a win from pro-business candidate Aecio Neves, and are expressing their disappointment this morning.

In Frankfurt, part-nationalized Brazilian energy giant Petroleo Brasiliero is down 10.78%.

And in Paris, the Lyxor ETF Brazil, an exchange traded fund that tracks the country's Ibovespa index of equities, is down 9.42%.

It's the same story across the world. The main ETF tracking Brazil in Japan opened down more than 7%.

And according to Andres Adabia at Pantheon Macroeconomics, it's likely to get worse before it gets better:

"Over the last four years, the Ibovespa has fallen close to a third, and it is down slightly this year-to-date. The real has weakened 33% since Ms. Rousseff took power, and markets-correctly, in our view-see few signs of hope for a turnaround. We doubt Ms. Rousseff will begin the significant shift to a more market-oriented economy that the country needs. The economy will continue in its slow growth, high inflation, mode for the foreseeable future. We therefore expect markets to remain under pressure."

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