Brazil’s National Treasury reported that purchases of government bonds through its Tesouro Direto programme reached 15 billion reais in August 2026. Investors made 1,320,001 transactions during the month, which the Treasury described as the highest sales total in the series. The figures were released on September 25.

Redemptions and maturities totalled 17.22 billion reais. Maturities included 11.3 billion reais of Tesouro IPCA+ 2026 bonds and 1.5 billion reais of IPCA+ bonds with semiannual interest, leaving net issuance negative by 2.21 billion reais. Purchases of up to 1,000 reais made up 55.7% of investment transactions, and the average transaction was 11,366.43 reais. The figures include both new bond sales and repayments.