There is now broad agreement in financial markets that interest rates in Brazil will fall into single digits this year, but keeping them there will require the “neutral” or “structural” level of interest rates in the economy to fall. This in turn will depend less on whether the recovery is a “jobless” one, as the BCB seems to be focusing on, and more on developments on the fiscal front.
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