MercoPress. South Atlantic News Agency
No break for the Brazilian economy, according to the central bank
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.
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Read all commentsAnd the GDP will continue falling as the coup leaders are paralyzing the voting of Congress. Federal budget, LDO, DRU, etc. everything stoped.
Dec 08th, 2015 - 11:56 am 0Who 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.
Free fall it is then.
Dec 08th, 2015 - 12:39 pm 0Enjoy!
PS: No recession over here
@1 It's never the fault of this wildly incompetent government and its ruling party, is it?
Dec 08th, 2015 - 05:35 pm 0Your awful English grammar and word choice is only surpassed by the inanity of of your unfounded assumptions.
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