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BRA · High Yield

Brazil

Last EMBI
175 bp
2026-09-02
TFT +3d
174 bp
origin 2026-09-02 → +3d 2026-09-07 · band 171–177 bp
DAG valuation
Fair
Brazil EMBI is fairly priced at 175 bp (fair 170 bp).
Forecast News Valuation DAG

TFT forecast

Segment model: High Yield. Point is the +3 business-day median level. Drivers are encoder+decoder variable selection — not news clusters.

Brazil TFT forecast
Forecast Drivers
Temporal attention (encoder −30d → −1d)
TypeAttentionSummary
Technicals47.9%own-spread momentum (tightening) · own EMBI level path
Global Macro39.6%FOMC calendar · global EMBI tighter
Local Macro4.2%local CB calendar · FX relief / firmer
Sentiment8.3%news volume · global sentiment

Attention = country-latest encoder+decoder variable selection (rolled up). Summary = top TFT features for that group + recent panel moves. Themes/clusters are separate (do not feed the TFT).

News themes

Rolling BERTopic clusters for desk context. They do not feed the TFT.

Country theme dynamics

14,450 articles · 68 clusters · 10 dropped

Top themes by share · green=accel · red=decel · blue=emerging · click a theme for the cluster note

ThemeToneShare (%)Share (z)n (prior → recent)
Legal and political battles between Bolsonaro and Lula supportersAccelerating-1.52.5%+1.73293 → 363
Political conflict within Brazilian political partiesDecelerating-2.62.2%-1.43380 → 325
Lula comments on public debt and fiscal deficit in BrazilAccelerating-1.51.3%+0.96151 → 192
Lula criticizes Trump tariffs and suggests better relations post-election-1.51.1%-0.43170 → 156
Lula promotes end of 6x1 scaling in Brazil amid political maneuvering+0.61.0%— → 146
Engenharia social responde por 40% das fraudes financeiras no BrasilAccelerating-3.10.9%+1.6356 → 124
Famosos lamentam morte de Laura Cardoso: 'Era gigante+4.60.8%-0.22117 → 112
Tempestades deixam dois mortos no Sul-4.50.7%-0.09104 → 104
Petrobras energy and quasi-sovereign riskEmerging+1.20.5%0 → 75
Brazil sues chat platform Discord over failure to protect child users-3.70.5%-0.4582 → 68
Confira os resultados das loterias desta quarta-feira+5.90.4%-0.1562 → 60
INSS libera consignado sem biometria; veja as novas regrasDecelerating+3.70.4%-1.37106 → 56
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Valuation DAG

fair

Brazil EMBI is fairly priced at 175 bp (fair 170 bp).

  • The debt-to-GDP gap vs a healthy level widened, which put downward pressure on the local policy–Fed funds gap, which typically tightens the EMBI spread.
  • Global news sentiment increased, which put upward pressure on local equities, which typically tightens the EMBI spread.
  • The S&P 500 rose, which put upward pressure on local equities, which typically tightens the EMBI spread.
EMBI vs macro fair value
Current EMBI175 bp
Macro fair value170 bp
Gap (current − fair)+5 bp (0.4σ)

4 monthly print(s) may not yet have been tradable at the last EMBI date.

Brazil EMBI monthly DAG train 2010-01-31→2025-02-28 (182) · holdout 2025-03-31→2026-09-30 (19) Global macro ToT / activity Fiscal Monetary Trade / FX EMBI / equity -0.62 -0.58 -0.51 -0.49 -0.48 USD broad global sent. oil S&P 500 US HY OAS copper commodity ToT ToT gap debt gap Fed gap curr. account export growth fx REER REER gap equity EMBI Brazil green + · red − · bold = story chain
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