Brazil: Emerging Markets Bond Index 2021-2024

Brazil is Latin America's largest economy based on annual gross domestic product. As of July 2024, Brazil's Emerging Markets Bond Index stood at 228 points, almost 29 points higher than at the same period one year earlier. This index is a weighted capitalization market benchmark that measures the financial returns obtained each day by a selected portfolio of government bonds from emerging countries.

The EMBI+, more commonly known as "risco país" in Portuguese, is measured in base points. These show the difference between the return rates paid by emerging countries' government bonds and those offered by the U.S. Treasury. Based on Brazil's EMBI as of October 27, 2020, the annual return rates of Brazilian sovereign debt titles were estimated to be 315 index points higher than those offered by U.S. Treasury bills. This difference is known as "spread".