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A supermarket on Rua Lima e Silva in Porto Alegre in 2024. Food and beverages was the group with the largest impact on October's IPCA.

Brazil's inflation slows to 0.14% in October as power bills fall, but the 12-month rate reaches 4.63%

President Lula during an address to the nation at the Palácio da Alvorada in Brasília, in April 2026.

Federal government

Lula says public debt and high interest rates worry him, and sets an investment target above 20% of GDP

The Bank of England's headquarters on Threadneedle Street, in the City of London, in September 2019.

Monetary policy

Bank of England raises Bank Rate to 4%, its first hike in more than three years, and projects inflation near 5% by mid-2027

The headquarters building of the Banco Central do Brasil in Brasília, where the Copom meets, pictured in 2010.

Brazil's central bank holds the Selic rate at 13.75% and breaks a run of five cuts

Christine Lagarde, President of the European Central Bank, on the right, during a visit to the European Commission in June 2025.

Monetary policy

ECB holds deposit rate at 2.5% with euro-area inflation at 3.8%, and markets now bet on a December hike

The seat of the European Central Bank and the Frankfurt skyline at dawn, in 2015.

Euro area inflation rises to 3.8% in September as energy costs jump 18.8% in a year

The Bank of Japan head office in Tokyo, designed by Kingo Tatsuno and opened in 1896.

Monetary policy

Bank of Japan lifts rates to 1.25%, a 31-year high, over two dissenting votes

The headquarters of the Banco Central do Brasil in Brasília, in a file photo.

Brazil's central bank cuts the Selic for a fifth straight time, to 13.75%