SAO PAULO, June 25 | Tue Jun 25, 2013 8:20am EDT
SAO PAULO, June 25 (Reuters) - The Brazilian real strengthened 1 percent against the U.S. dollar on Tuesday as investors awaited an auction of traditional currency swaps scheduled by the central bank for Tuesday morning.
The bank said in a statement it will offer as many as 66,000 swaps, derivative contracts designed to support the real, at an auction scheduled for 10:30 a.m. local time (1330 GMT).
At 9:15 a.m. (1215 GMT), the real strengthened 0.80 percent to 2.2088 per dollar after having risen more than 1 percent earlier in the session.
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