Brazil's Finance Minister Joaquim Levy is being replaced after a year on the job.
Agencia Brasil says the fiscally conservative former treasury secretary will be replaced by Planning Minister Nelson Barbosa.
Levy was appointed in November 2014 amid rising concern about Brazil's slumping economy, and he was widely expected to chart a new economic course. But a continuing political crisis hampered the belt-tightening measures Levy insisted were crucial to restarting the economy, and few made it through congress.
Brazil's economy is mired in the worst recession in 25 years and is expected to contract more than 3.5 per cent this year.
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