Commitment to inflation target will guide Brazil's rate-hiking cycle, cenbank director says

BY Reuters | ECONOMIC | 10/24/24 08:33 AM EDT

Oct 24 (Reuters) - Future interest rate adjustments and the total magnitude of the current monetary tightening cycle by Brazil's central bank will be determined by a firm commitment to reaching its 3% inflation target, director Diogo Guillen said on Thursday.

Speaking at a Citi event in Washington, Guillen underscored the central bank's data dependency, but added that the scenario indicates that monetary policy should be more contractionary. (Reporting by Bernardo Caram; writing by Luana Maria Benedito; editing by Gabriel Araujo)

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