A New Decline in Industrial Production

BRAZIL ECONOMICS - Report 10 Nov 2014 by Affonso Pastore, Cristina Pinotti and Marcelo Gazzano

Industrial output fell 0.2% in September, completing the fifth straight quarter of contraction (Graph 1). The decline observed in the third quarter was smaller than in the second (-0.2% versus -1.9%), which will lead to better GDP performance in the third quarter than in the second (-0.6%). All the same, the latest figures strengthen the evidence of very weak GDP performance in the third quarter.

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