Market roundup: Brazil’s debt costs continue to balloon

🔔 The dashboard: Brazil’s benchmark stock index Ibovespa was up 0.28 percent this week. Meanwhile, the Brazilian Real lost 1.71 percent against the U.S. Dollar this week. 

• Biggest gains: Fleury (health), +10.21 percent.
• Biggest drops: CVC (tourism), -17.86 percent.

Cost of Brazilian public debt is the highest since 2018

The cost of Brazilian public debt is at its highest level in almost four years. According to the Treasury Department, the average cost of the federal public debt stock in 12 months reached 9.68 percent in May, the highest level since November 2018. As for the cost of domestic federal public debt securities, it stood at 10.58 percent, the highest rate since October 2017. 

Behind the numbers. Most of the Brazilian public debt is linked to the IPCA consumer price index and the Selic benchmark interest rate. Both are in the double digits, which pushes the debt stock up.

Consumer prices have...