All eyes are on Brazil this morning as investors and economists eagerly await the release of the country’s first-quarter GDP figures. Why all the fuss over a bunch of numbers? Well, GDP, or Gross Domestic Product, is like a report card for a country’s economy. It tells us how much the economy grew or shrank, […]
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