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Inflation in Brazil is expected to ease further this year and near the mid-point of the central bank's 3% target by mid-2026, President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva said in a written message to Congress on Monday. The slowdown in prices will benefit from the increase in the interest rate differential between Brazil and other economies, which should help with exchange-rate dynamics, according to the document. Last week, Brazil's central bank hiked interest rates by 100 basis points and signaled another increase in March.

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The net share of banks reporting stronger demand for commercial and industrial loans from large and medium-sized businesses rose to 9.4% in the fourth quarter of 2024, and from small firms to 3.4%. The results suggest the Fed's 100 basis points of interest rate cuts last year may have helped encourage business borrowing, even as the effect on demand for other kinds of loans appeared limited.

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(Bloomberg) -- Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta President Raphael Bostic said he wants to wait “a while” before cutting interest rates again following last year’s reductions amid uncertainty over where the US economy is headed in 2025.Most Read from BloombergNew York’s First ‘Passive House’ School Is a Model of Downtown DensityState Farm Seeks Emergency California Rate Hike After LA FiresWhen French Communists Went on a Brutalist Building BoomTrump Paves the Way to Deputize Local Police on Immigr

LONDON (Reuters) -OPEC+ agreed to stick to its policy of gradually raising oil output from April on Monday and removed the U.S. government's Energy Information Administration from the sources used to monitor its production and adherence to supply pacts. OPEC+ and Donald Trump clashed repeatedly during his first administration in 2016-2020 when the U.S. President demanded it raise production to compensate for the drop in Iranian supply that resulted from U.S. sanctions. Since returning to office in January, Trump has already called on the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries to bring down prices, saying elevated prices have helped Russia continue the war in Ukraine.

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