Brazil’s mid-month inflation data have tended to overestimate inflation over the full month recently but even so the latest rise, from 8.9% y/y to 9.0% y/y in mid-August, is likely to cause some alarm at the central bank. The likely timing of the first interest rate cut is slipping from October’s COPOM meeting to November’s.
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