{"id":254311,"date":"2019-08-12T10:09:01","date_gmt":"2019-08-12T13:09:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/?p=254311"},"modified":"2019-08-12T12:02:59","modified_gmt":"2019-08-12T15:02:59","slug":"economic-activity-down-0-13-in-brazil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/economic-activity-down-0-13-in-brazil\/","title":{"rendered":"Economic activity down 0.13% in Brazil"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bras\u00edlia \u2013 Brazilian economic activity cooled off by 0.13% in Q2 from Q1 this year, according to the Brazilian Central Bank\u2019s season-adjusted Economic Activity Index (IBC-Br). The numbers were made public this Monday (12).<\/p>\n<p>Activity is down for the second straight quarter. Revised data show that the IBC-Br slid 0.52% in Q1 from Q4 2018.<\/p>\n<p>Brazil\u2019s economy picked up by 0.62% (non-adjusted) year-on-year in H1, and by 1.08% in the 12 months through June.<\/p>\n<p>Even though Gross Domestic Product (GDP) is the official economic indicator, the Central Bank relies on the IBC-Br to gauge economic activity in order to make decisions regarding the benchmark interest rate, aka Selic.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Translated by Gabriel Pomerancblum<\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"credits-overlay\" data-target=\".wp-image-215071\">Marcello Casal Jr.\/Ag\u00eancia Brasil<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Brazilian economy lost steam in Q2 from Q1, the Central Bank reported.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1466,"featured_media":215071,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[91],"tags":[9534,1803,3800,10545,9902],"class_list":{"0":"post-254311","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-economy","8":"tag-brazil-en","9":"tag-central-bank","10":"tag-economic-activity","11":"tag-economy-en","12":"tag-ibc-br-en"},"wps_subtitle":"The Brazilian economy lost steam in Q2 from Q1, the Central Bank reported.","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254311","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1466"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=254311"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254311\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/215071"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=254311"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=254311"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=254311"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}