RIO DE JANEIRO | Thu May 24, 2012 10:59am EDT
RIO DE JANEIRO May 24 (Reuters) - Brazil's central bank on Thursday offered to sell up to $2 billion in currency swaps, in an attempt to support the real.
The bank is offering up to 40,000 swap contracts maturing on July 2, it said in a statement. The real erased its losses just after the announcement. It last traded 0.13 percent stronger at 2.0361 per U.S. dollar.
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