(Bloomberg) -- Brazil’s benchmark interest rate will fall below 7 percent for the first time ever next year as inflation remains below the official target, economists surveyed by the central bank forecast.
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Policy makers will extend their aggressive monetary easing cycle into 2018 to cut the benchmark Selic rate to 6.75 percent from its current level of 7 percent, according to some 100 economists polled weekly by the monetary authority. They also forecast inflation to accelerate to 3.96 percent, still below the 4.5 percent target for next year.
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