Petrobras topples to loss

Petrobras hit: Brazil player whacked by exchange rates, exploration costs

Petrobras on Friday posted a steep second-quarter loss that widely missed market expectations, citing a raft of reasons from the sliding value of the real to higher costs of dry and noncommercial wells.

The state-owned Brazilian player posted a net loss of 1.35bn reais ($665.7 million) in the three months to June, compared with a profit of 10.94 billion reais in the year-ago period.

Analysts surveyed by Thompson Reuters had forecast a profit of 3.69 billion reais.

The loss came even as revenue grew 11.5% to 68 billion reais.

Production also slumped 1% to 2.579 million barrels per day.

“We are working to recover our profitability,” Petrobras president Maria das Gracas Foster said in a statement.

The company's new development plan "focusses on the production of oil…

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