Indicators
Brazil Industry Slips Again as High Borrowing Costs Take a Toll
- Production fell 0.6% on month, rose 1.7% on year in November
- Monthly figures showed broad-based declines across categories
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Brazil’s industrial output fell for the second straight month, signaling that tight financial conditions are taking toll on the credit-dependent sector as the central bank prepares to take interest rates even higher.
Production declined 0.6% in November from the month prior, just less than the median estimate of a 0.7% drop from analysts in a Bloomberg survey. Industry gained 1.7% from a year earlier, the national statistics agency reported Wednesday.