The 0.3% m/m fall in Brazilian industrial production, coupled with the weakness of the latest surveys, suggests that it’s touch and go as to whether the economy contracted again in Q1. Even so, as the minutes to the March Copom meeting made clear, economic weakness won’t prompt a shift towards monetary easing for as long as inflation uncomfortably high.
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