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What next for Brazil?

Brazil’s economy is bottoming out and, while the recovery will be slow going, our 2017 GDP forecast is a bit above consensus. Inflation should ease and, although COPOM will move gradually in the first instance, interest rates could fall to as low as 11.50% by the end of next year. The main risks to our forecasts in both the short and the medium term lie, as ever, with fiscal policy.

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