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Brazil runs no risk of stoking inflation even as the government tries to engineer a rebound in growth and investment, said Luciano Coutinho, president of BNDES, the nation’s development bank.
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Brazil’s state development bank, known as BNDES, is considering selling bonds abroad for the first time since 2011 to help finance its international lending program, President Luciano Coutinho said.
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The selection of Brazil’s Roberto Azevedo as the next head of the World Trade Organization may help ease emerging markets’ resistance to removing barriers as part of global trade talks.
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Bank of Israel Governor Stanley Fischer said he’s worried about the use of unconventional monetary policies around the world, which make measures to slow capital inflows a necessity in some countries.
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Group of 20 finance chiefs pledged to stay alert to any fallout from easy monetary policies even as they backed the Bank of Japan’s plan to buy more than 7 trillion yen ($70 billion) a month of bonds.
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The pace of economic growth in Latin America will slow in the coming years as a result of lower commodity prices and a deceleration in China, the World Bank said.
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The intensity of Brazil’s interest rate increases will depend on future data, central bank director Luiz Awazu Pereira da Silva said today, causing traders to boost bets on tighter monetary policy.
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Colombia’s central bank will weigh the impact of the government’s $2.7 billion stimulus plan announced this week as it decides on whether the economy needs more stimulus, central bank Governor Jose Dario Uribe said.
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The U.S. is unlikely to adopt a more confrontational stance toward Venezuela even as President- elect Nicolas Maduro ratchets up his rhetoric in the wake of his narrow victory, the State Department’s top official for Latin America said.
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The International Monetary Fund cut its forecast for growth in Brazil, saying supply constraints could limit the pace of a recovery under way in Latin America’s biggest economy.
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