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Brazil Central Bank API: Focus Survey Expectations & PTAX FX

Banco Central do Brasil Focus survey of market expectations (IPCA, Selic per Copom meeting, GDP, BRL/USD, IGP-M, fiscal and external accounts: median, mean, spread, respondents) and official PTAX exchange rates for USD, EUR and other currencies.

$0.16 per 1,000 rows

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What it returns

Banco Central do Brasil data from its official Olinda API. - **Focus survey**: market expectations collected by the central bank from banks and asset managers. `focus-annual` per calendar year, `focus-monthly` per month, `focus-selic` per Copom meeting. Indicators include IPCA inflation and its components, Selic, GDP and its components, BRL per USD, IGP-M, unemployment, current account, trade balance, FDI, primary and nominal balance and public debt. Each row has the median, mean, standard deviation, min, max and number of respondents. - **PTAX**: the official BRL exchange rate for USD, EUR and other currencies (closing bulletin by default).

| field | meaning |. |---|---|. | `surveyDate`, `indicator`, `indicatorEn`, `detail` | Focus survey date and indicator (Portuguese and English) |. | `reference` | the year, month (`10/2026`) or Copom meeting (`R6/2026`) forecast |. | `median`, `mean`, `stdDev`, `min`, `max`, `respondents` | distribution of the forecasts |. | `currency`, `date`, `bulletin`, `brlBuy`, `brlSell`, `usdParityBuy`, `usdParitySell` | PTAX rows |.

Request

POST https://api.pushbuild.com/brazil-central-bank-data/run with a JSON body. Send your key in the X-API-Key header.

FieldTypeDescription
datasetslist of stringsAny of: focus-annual (expectations per calendar year), focus-monthly (per month), focus-selic (per Copom meeting), ptax (official exchange rates). Default: focus-annual, focus-selic, ptax.
indicatorslist of stringsFocus indicator names as published in Portuguese, e.g. IPCA, Selic, PIB Total, Câmbio, IGP-M, Taxa de desocupação, Conta corrente. Default: IPCA, Selic, PIB Total, Câmbio.
startDatestringYYYY-MM-DD. Focus: every survey from this date (default: latest survey only). PTAX: first quote date.
endDatestringYYYY-MM-DD.
baseCalculointegerAnnual Focus: 0 = respondents over the last 30 days (the published figure), 1 = last 5 business days. Default: 0.
currencieslist of stringsISO codes, e.g. USD, EUR, GBP, JPY, CHF, CNY. Default: USD, EUR.
lookbackDaysintegerUsed when startDate is empty. Default: 30.
allBulletinsbooleanAlso return the opening and intermediate bulletins, not only the closing PTAX. Default: false.
maxItemsintegerMaximum items to return (1-500). Default: 100.

Example

curl -X POST https://api.pushbuild.com/brazil-central-bank-data/run \
  -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"datasets": ["focus-annual", "ptax"], "maxItems": 20}'

Response

{"count": 20, "truncated": false, "seconds": 1.4, "items": [ { ... } ]}

Each call returns up to 500 items. Records that fail validation or are not found are flagged in the items and not charged.

Pricing

Pay only for results returned: $0.16 per 1,000 rows. No charge for errors or empty searches.

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