Tag: Focus Survey
By Lise Alves, Senior Contributing Reporter
SÃO PAULO, BRAZIL – Financial institutions in Brazil reduced on Monday the country’s economic growth forecast for the eighth consecutive time this year, showed the Central Bank’s weekly Focus Survey. The estimate for this...
By Lise Alves, Senior Contributing Reporter
SÃO PAULO, BRAZIL – Although acknowledging that forecasts for the country’s GDP growth next year continue to decline, Brazil’s Finance Minister, Henrique Meirelles, said on Monday that the government expects Brazil will register some...
By Lise Alves, Senior Contributing Reporter
SÃO PAULO, BRAZIL – The weekly survey, Focus Report, conducted by Brazil’s Central Bank with one hundred financial institutions, shows that economists are not very optimistic with Brazilian economic indicators. According to these institutions,...
By Lise Alves, Senior Contributing Reporter
SÃO PAULO, BRAZIL – The IPCA (National Consumer Price Index) in Brazil rose by 0.78 percent in May, according to the IBGE (Brazilian Statistics Bureau) the highest inflation for the month of May since...
By Lise Alves, Senior Contributing Reporter
SÃO PAULO, BRAZIL – Financial analysts have increased once again inflation forecasts for this year and next. According to the latest Focus Survey, released by the Central Bank, Brazil’s IPCA (Consumer Price Index) will...
By Lise Alves, Senior Contributing Reporter
SÃO PAULO, BRAZIL - Financial analysts have increased forecasts for the annual inflation in Brazil for 2015 to 8.12 percent, according to the latest Focus Survey, released by the Central Bank. The previous survey...
By Lise Alves, Senior Contributing Reporter
SÃO PAULO, BRAZIL – Brazil’s Planning Ministry has reduced its growth forecast (GDP) for the country’s economy in 2015 from 2 percent to 0.8 percent. The reduction in estimate comes only weeks after the...
