{"id":41278,"date":"2012-04-20T18:12:00","date_gmt":"2012-04-20T20:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/escaesco.com.br\/lab\/anba\/rousseff-speaks-for-even-lower-interest-rates\/"},"modified":"2019-06-30T13:20:44","modified_gmt":"2019-06-30T16:20:44","slug":"rousseff-speaks-for-even-lower-interest-rates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/rousseff-speaks-for-even-lower-interest-rates\/","title":{"rendered":"Rousseff speaks for even lower interest rates"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bras\u00edlia \u2013 This Friday (20th), president Dilma Rousseff said Brazil must seek an interest rate level similar to those seen internationally, and that the country\u2019s high bank spreads (difference between interest paid in obtaining the funds and the interest charged on loans) are hard to justify.<\/p>\n<p> To the president, the country\u2019s maturing process will allow interest rates to reach levels \u201cmore compatible with our reality.\u201d \u201cWe are headed toward higher growth rates, so interest rates will also increasingly reflect that reality. I have said it in the past that I do not understand the technical reasons for a certain level of spread,\u201d she told journalists after attending a ceremony at the Itamaraty Palace.<\/p>\n<p> Upon being questioned as to whether the lowering of interest rates by public and private banks over the last few days was sufficient, the president replied that she believes this will be \u201ca maturing process for the country that will progressively lead us to interest rates more in keeping with our reality, because we are not just any country. We are a country recognized for its stable economic scenario.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> <b>*Translated by Gabriel Pomerancblum<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Dilma Rousseff stated that Brazil must seek an interest rate level similar to those seen in other countries.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2315,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","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":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-41278","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-economy"},"wps_subtitle":"President Dilma Rousseff stated that Brazil must seek an interest rate level similar to those seen in other countries.","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41278","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=41278"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41278\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41278"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41278"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41278"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}