Record reporter is removed after bringing forward an interview with the agency she is a partner in

After an excerpt from the interview given by President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva (PT) to TV Record on Tuesday (16) reached the market about an hour before the broadcaster’s release, the reporter who produced the content ended up being removed.

Published by brokerage firm BGC, the text was attributed to Capital Advice, a political analysis agency of which Renata Varandas, the author of the interview, is one of the three partners. The company passed on to investors the statement that Lula said he still needed to be convinced about the need for spending cuts and that the fiscal target did not necessarily need to be met, although he had committed to the fiscal framework.

According to the investigation of F5Record, after the dismissal, is considering firing the professional. Until then, the broadcaster was still thinking about what measures it would take in the case, which was exclusively reported by Folha this Wednesday (17). When contacted, Renata did not respond to messages.

On Tuesday, the dollar jumped and market analysts assessed that the president’s statements had caused noises of fiscal uncertainty.

The effects of the statements on the exchange rate began around 12:20 p.m., when the dollar’s value began to accelerate. At 12:43 p.m., the American currency began to rise against the real, rising until reaching the session’s high at 1:40 p.m., at R$5.462 — an appreciation of 0.33% compared to the previous day’s close.

At 1:48 p.m., TV Record broadcast the part of the interview that caused market noise, and the dollar returned to negative territory. At the end of the day, the currency closed down 0.31%, at R$5.428. On a volatile day, the stock market also remained in negative territory after the president’s statements.