Brazil’s central bank is likely to keep raising interest rates and take the Selic benchmark rate to 15% this year, according ...

Investors already concerned about Brazil's ballooning public debt load under veteran leftist President Luiz Inacio Lula da ...

By November, the LFT's share of total debt had posted a year-to-date jump of a record 6.5 percentage points, accounting for ...

Brazil’s annual inflation slowed less than expected in early January despite a drop in energy costs, highlighting the ...

Brazil's annual inflation rate slowed less than expected in early January, official data showed on Friday, cementing the ...

BUENOS AIRES (Reuters) - Brazil's central bank will raise its benchmark interest rate by 100 basis points on Jan. 29, with ...

Interest rate shocks now threaten to drive up the cost ... With a heated economy and external and local uncertainties keeping Brazil's currency weak, the central bank has already signaled two ...

Brazil economists raised their forecasts for the benchmark interest rate and inflation at the end of next year as factors including a weak currency make consumer price pressures hard to tame.

Inflation continues to hover near the upper limit of the Central bank of Brazil's target range, keeping monetary policy tight as further interest rate hikes loom. Economists now anticipate that ...