Brazil’s IPCA-15, a key inflation indicator, rose 0.40% in December, leading to a preliminary annual rate of 4.72%. This marks a decrease from the previous year’s 5.90%, as the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics IBGE reported. December’s slight increase, 0.07 percentage points higher than November, was mostly due to a surge in airfare prices. […]
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