Market economists reduced their estimate for inflation by the Broad Consumer Price Index (IPCA) in 2017 and in the next 12 months, according to the average forecast in the Focus Bulletin, released on Monday by the Central Bank (BC) .
For this year, inflation bets were reduced from 3.03% to 2.88%, below the floor of the target for the calendar, of 3%. The center of the inflation target is 4.5%. In 12 months, the projection for the advance of prices increased from 3.96% to 3.91%. For 2018, the estimate was maintained at 4.02%.
Last Friday, the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics (IBGE) reported that the IPCA slowed the rise to 0.28% in November, after rising 0.42% a month earlier.
The average estimate for economic growth had a new round of upward adjustments after the IBGE revised positively the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) figures for the first and second quarters of this year. Thus, the projections went from expansion of 0.89% to 0.91% in 2017 and advance from 2.60% to 2.62% in 2018.
For the basic interest rate, Selic, at the end of 2018, the projections were maintained at 7%
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