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Financial result (Tables) | 12 Months Ended
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Dec. 31, 2020
Financial result |
Schedule of financial result |
|  | Year ended December 31,
|  | 2020 |  | 2019 |  | 2018
Financial income |  |  |  |  |  |
Short-term investments |  | 129 |  | 247 |  | 177
Others (i) |  | 246 |  | 280 |  | 246
|  | 375 |  | 527 |  | 423
Financial expenses |  |  |  |  |  |
Loans and borrowings gross interest |  | (819) |  | (989) |  | (1,185)
Capitalized loans and borrowing costs |  | 70 |  | 140 |  | 194
Participative stockholders' debentures |  | (1,565) |  | (1,475) |  | (550)
Interest on REFIS |  | (55) |  | (154) |  | (197)
Interest on lease liabilities |  | (70) |  | (76) |  | —
Financial guarantees |  | (468) |  | (353) |  | 23
Expenses with cash tender offer repurchased |  | — |  | (265) |  | (273)
Others |  | (376) |  | (574) |  | (326)
|  | (3,283) |  | (3,746) |  | (2,314)
Other financial items, net |  |  |  |  |  |
Net foreign exchange gains (losses) |  | (523) |  | 39 |  | (2,247)
Derivative financial instruments (note 19) |  | (1,210) |  | 244 |  | (266)
Indexation losses, net |  | (170) |  | (477) |  | (553)
|  | (1,903) |  | (194) |  | (3,066)
Total |  | (4,811) |  | (3,413) |  | (4,957)
(i) In 2020, includes amounts related to Eletrobrás' contingent assets in the amount of US$59, see note 26.

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