By Andre Soliani and Joshua Goodman
The deficit, including the federal government, local governments and state companies, widened to 22.4 billion ($13 billion) from 8.16 billion reais in August, the central bank said in a report distributed today in Brasilia. Analysts expected a gap of 12 billion reais, according to the median of three forecasts in a Bloomberg survey. It was the widest gap for the month of September since the series started in 2001." [more...]
