The 2.4% m/m drop in Brazil’s industrial production in March is a clear sign that the severe virus outbreak has put the economic recovery into reverse and the data for April may be worse still. But this weakness is unlikely to deter the central bank from hiking the Selic rate by another 75bp, to 3.50%, later today.
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