Brazilian inflation breached the upper bound of its target range last month, tipping the balance in favour of a hike in the benchmark Selic interest rate at next week’s COPOM meeting. Nonetheless, it remains a close call and even if rates are raised next week, we doubt that the aggressive tightening priced into the interest rate futures market will materialise.
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