Against the US dollar, the Brazilian real edged up in New York afternoon trading on Tuesday. At 1:45 pm ET, the real jumped to a fresh multi-month high of 1.8040 versus the greenback from morning session's low of 1.8190. The dollar-real pair was worth 1.8130 at yesterday's North American session close.

Tuesday, Brazil's statistical office IBGE announced that the retail sales increased 0.5% month-on-month in July, slower than the 0.9% growth expected by economists.

On an annual basis, retail sales increased 5.9% in July. Economists' expected an increase of 6.2%.

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