Various changes to regulated prices, coupled with general uncertainty over the path of food inflation, mean that it has become increasingly difficult to predict month-to-month changes in Brazilian inflation. Our view is that inflation is now close to peaking, but that the peak may not come soon enough to prevent a tightening of monetary policy at this month’s COPOM meeting.
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