Monday, 22 July 2019

Brazilian financial market raises GDP projection to 2019 for the first time in 20 weeks

The Focus report, published by the Brazilian Central Bank every Monday, indicates that projections by Brazilian financial market analysts estimate GDP growth to be 0.81% to 0.82% by 2019. The same analysts consulted by the Brazilian Central Bank continue betting on the growth of 2.10% of the Brazilian GDP in 2020.

The change is related to the approval of the first shift of the Pension Reform by the Chamber of Deputies of Brazil. Even so, the performance of the Brazilian economy is still very poor. Many analysts expect the government to present some kind of measure that could warm the Brazilian economy a bit more.

Economists lowered the estimate for the Brazilian official inflation index (IPCA), which was down to 3.78%. A week ago it was at 3.82%. This year's central target is 4.25%, with a tolerance of 1.5 percentage points to more or less.

Many analysts believe that the Central Bank should, at the next Monetary Policy Committee meeting (Copom), which takes place in the last two days of July 2019, should lower the Selic rate of the Brazilian economy that is now at 6, 5% per annum.

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