Brasília, March 9, 2004 (Agência Brasil - ABr) - The National Treasury should place up to R$ 20 billion in public debt instruments on the market this month. R$ 6.3 billion in federal government titles will be due in March.

According to a communication distributed by the National Treasury, "with respect to the Federal Government Domestic Debt (DPMFi) titles due in March, 31.7% are titles with interest based on the prime rate (Selic), 44.4% are corrected by variations in the exchange rate, and 23.8% are other titles."

In January, the amount of the DPMFi in the hands of the public attained R$ 737.3 billion, which represents an increase of 0.8% over the previous month, as a result of the appropriation of interest and currency depreciation (corresponding to R$ 1.4 billion), compensated by the net redemption of titles worth R$ 5.2 billion. (DAS)