{"id":256999,"date":"2019-09-13T17:21:48","date_gmt":"2019-09-13T20:21:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/?p=256999"},"modified":"2019-09-13T17:36:37","modified_gmt":"2019-09-13T20:36:37","slug":"brazils-economy-shrank-by-0-16-in-july","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/brazils-economy-shrank-by-0-16-in-july\/","title":{"rendered":"Brazil\u2019s economy shrank by 0.16% in July"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bras\u00edlia \u2013 Brazil\u2019s economy slowed in July after going up in May and June. The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bcb.gov.br\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Brazilian Central Bank<\/a>\u2019s season-adjusted Economic Activity Index (IBC-Br), was down 0.16% in July from June, the monetary authority reported this Friday (13).<\/p>\n<p>Activity was up 1.31% year-on-year in July 1.07% in the 12 months through April, and 0.78% year-to-date through July.<\/p>\n<p>The IBC-Br is designed to track economic activity, informing Central Bank policymaking regarding the benchmark interest rate (known as the Selic). The index factors in information about the three sectors of economy: industry, trade and services, and agriculture, plus tax collection figures.<\/p>\n<p>Although the Central Bank attempts to approximate economic behavior, the official indicator is the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) from the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics (IBGE).<\/p>\n<p><strong>Translated by Gabriel Pomerancblum<\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"credits-overlay\" data-target=\".wp-image-256959\">Paulo Amorim\/NurPhoto\/AFP<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Activity slowed down compared with July, the Brazilian Central Bank reported this Friday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2315,"featured_media":256959,"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":[1803,12923,3800,10545,9756,9902,9889,9759],"class_list":{"0":"post-256999","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-economy","8":"tag-central-bank","9":"tag-economia-brasileira-ar","10":"tag-economic-activity","11":"tag-economy-en","12":"tag-gdp-en","13":"tag-ibc-br-en","14":"tag-ibge-en","15":"tag-selic-en"},"wps_subtitle":"Activity slowed down compared with July, the Brazilian Central Bank reported this Friday. ","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256999","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\/2315"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=256999"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256999\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/256959"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=256999"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=256999"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=256999"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}