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No break for the Brazilian economy, according to the central bank

Tuesday, December 8th 2015 - 09:08 UTC
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GDP and inflation estimates come from the Boletin Focus, a weekly Central Bank survey of analysts from about 100 private financial institutions GDP and inflation estimates come from the Boletin Focus, a weekly Central Bank survey of analysts from about 100 private financial institutions

Analysts expect Brazil's economy to contract by 3.50% this year, with inflation hitting 10.44%, the Central Bank said on Monday. GDP and inflation estimates come from the Boletin Focus, a weekly Central Bank survey of analysts from about 100 private financial institutions on the state of the national economy.

 The government started using the survey in preparing its own forecasts this year.

Analysts revised their projections from last week, when they expected the economy to contract by 3.19% and inflation to come in at 10.38% in 2015.

In 2016, analysts now expect Latin America's largest economy to contract by 2.31% with the inflation rate falling to 6.70%. If the forecasts turn out to be accurate, Brazil will go through two consecutive years of negative GDP growth for the first time since 1948.

Brazil is in a recession, with GDP contracting for two consecutive quarters. Latin America's largest economy contracted by 2.1% in the first half of this year.

Economic growth has also been hampered by the spending cuts implemented by President Dilma Rousseff's administration to reduce the budget deficit and control inflation.

Categories: Economy, Politics, Brazil.

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  • Brasileiro

    And the GDP will continue falling as the coup leaders are paralyzing the voting of Congress. Federal budget, LDO, DRU, etc. everything stoped.

    Who is paying the coup leaders politicians should be the NSA or the CIA because they act according to the best interests of the North Saxon America.

    Or we deploy a military government and kill all the politicians of the PSDB/DEM or Brazil will continue in free fall.

    Dec 08th, 2015 - 11:56 am 0
  • Skip

    Free fall it is then.

    Enjoy!

    PS: No recession over here

    Dec 08th, 2015 - 12:39 pm 0
  • LatAmBurgher

    @1 It's never the fault of this wildly incompetent government and its ruling party, is it?

    Your awful English grammar and word choice is only surpassed by the inanity of of your unfounded assumptions.

    Dec 08th, 2015 - 05:35 pm 0
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