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JPMorgan Forecast Selic Rate Ending 2023 At 12.75%

BRAZIL
  • JPMorgan expect the COPOM to keep rates unchanged at 13.75%. While they still forecast that the easing cycle will only start in November, JPM acknowledge that the chances of an earlier cut this year have been on the rise given the domestic economic slowdown and particularly after recent new global risks arose recently, in spite of increasingly unanchored inflation expectations. They work with the SELIC rate ending this year at 12.75% and falling to 11% next year.
  • The focus of the COPOM discussion should remain on the appropriate level of rates amid the crosscurrents of Brazil’s weakening economy and worrisome signals from the credit markets on one side, counterbalanced by rising inflation expectations on the other.
  • It will be of particular importance how BCB frames the discussion about the recent financial stress in the US and Europe. In contrast with BCB’s view expressed in the last meeting of a less challenging external scenario, the state of global uncertainty has worsened markedly in the last week.
  • As the domestic and global events on credit, GDP growth, and inflation are still unfolding, BCB will likely communicate that the outlook still demands the monetary authority’s attention. However, JPM believe BCB will remove the threat in recent communications of restarting the tightening cycle and instead signal more balanced risks for monetary policy in the months ahead.

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