{"id":64667,"date":"2014-12-03T19:35:09","date_gmt":"2014-12-04T00:35:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/countingpips.com\/?p=64667"},"modified":"2014-12-03T19:49:30","modified_gmt":"2014-12-04T00:49:30","slug":"brazil-raises-rate-50-bps-rises-now-deployed-sparingly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex\/2014\/12\/brazil-raises-rate-50-bps-rises-now-deployed-sparingly\/","title":{"rendered":"Brazil raises rate 50 bps, rises now &#8220;deployed sparingly&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"inves-554447881\" class=\"inves-below-title-posts inves-entity-placement\"><div id =\"posts_date_custom\"><div align=\"left\">December 3, 2014<\/div><hr style=\"border: none; border-bottom: 3px solid black;\">\r\n<\/div><\/div><p>By <a href=\"http:\/\/www.centralbanknews.info\/\"><u>CentralBankNews.info<\/u><\/a><br \/>\n&nbsp; &nbsp; Brazil&#8217;s central bank raised its benchmark Selic rate by a higher-than-expected 50 basis points to 11.75 percent but said future rate increases would only be &#8220;deployed sparingly.&#8221;<br \/>&nbsp; &nbsp; The Central Bank of Brazil, which has now raised its rate by 175 basis points this year to beat back stubborn inflation, said in a brief statement that the rate rise was decided unanimously by its policy committee &#8211; known as Copom &#8211; and there was no bias indicated.<br \/>&nbsp; &nbsp; &#8220;Considering the cumulative and lagged effects of monetary policy, among other factors, the Committee believes that the additional efforts of monetary policy should tend to be deployed sparingly,&#8221; the central bank said.<br \/>&nbsp; &nbsp; Most economists had expected the central bank to raise its rate by 25 basis points to send a strong message about its determination to push inflation down to its target of 4.5 percent, plus\/minus 2 percentage points.<br \/>&nbsp; &nbsp; Last week Alexandre Tombini, central bank president, said the central bank&#8217;s main mission was to slow inflation to its target by no later than 2016.<br \/>&nbsp; &nbsp; Brazil&#8217;s headline inflation rate eased to 6.59 percent in October form 6.75 percent in September while its Gross Domestic Product expanded by a slight 0.1 percent in the third quarter from the second quarter for annual contraction of 0.2 percent, smaller than the 0.9 percent contraction in the second quarter.<br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.centralbanknews.info\/\"><br \/><\/a>&nbsp; &nbsp; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.centralbanknews.info\/\">www.CentralBankNews.info<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By CentralBankNews.info &nbsp; &nbsp; Brazil&#8217;s central bank raised its benchmark Selic rate by a higher-than-expected 50 basis points to 11.75 percent but said future rate increases would only be &#8220;deployed sparingly.&#8221;&nbsp; &nbsp; The Central Bank of Brazil, which has now raised its rate by 175 basis points this year to beat back stubborn inflation, said [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-64667","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","no-post-thumbnail"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64667","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=64667"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64667\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64667"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64667"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64667"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}