Financial analysts are keeping their 2013 growth forecasts for the Brazilian economy at 2.21 per cent, the same level as last week, the Central Bank says.
The gross domestic product (GDP) forecast for 2014 remains at 2.5 per cent, the Central Bank said in its Boletin Focus, a weekly survey of analysts from about 100 private financial institutions on the state of the national economy.
Private forecasters see GDP growing at a slower pace than the government, which has cut its estimates but still expects the economy to expand at a three per cent rate in 2013.
Analysts expect inflation to end the year at 5.74 per cent and to hit 5.85 per cent in 2014, down from the previous estimate of 5.8 per cent.
Interest rates, according to the analysts surveyed for the Boletin Focus, will be at 9.5 per cent by the end of this year, up from the current 8.5 per cent level.
